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Google just meesed up
Topic Started: Jan 18 2005, 12:11 AM (839 Views)
Scott
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I kinda agree with Amy here.. I was using google a lot yesterday and never once did I see that noose. Of course if all this happened in a few hours, that's about the only way. :/

Edit: What time zone was that screen shot taken in? If it was eastern, I wasn't on then. :S
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Scott
Jan 18 2005, 10:37 PM
I kinda agree with Amy here..  I was using google a lot yesterday and never once did I see that noose.  Of course if all this happened in a few hours, that's about the only way. :/

Edit: What time zone was that screen shot taken in? If it was eastern, I wasn't on then. :S

the article reads as such:


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When reached for comment, Google Co-Founder and President Sergey Brin offered a press release stating "We stand by our decision to post the logo. In these days of political correctness, these people need to learn to just take a joke." In contrast to these harsh words, Google did take down the logo and any references to it early in the day, most likely in fear of the African-American lash back.


they took it down very very quickly, in other words. Unless of course, this article is a fake.
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Maybe you should search for it on Google. :lol: But seriously...
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could this be it? Link To Contriversy
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I don't see how that fits within the lines of a joke.
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google does that often! It's not a mess up! It changes it's logo around alot. That one has a rope tying around the g.
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zoeytycoony
Jan 18 2005, 11:31 PM
google does that often! It's not a mess up! It changes it's logo around alot. That one has a rope tying around the g.

you didn't read the article, did you?
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QUOTE (zoeytycoony @ Jan 18 2005, 11:31 PM)
google does that often! It's not a mess up! It changes it's logo around alot. That one has a rope tying around the g. 


you didn't read the article, did you?

hush, let him feel proud
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now I feel stupid...
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Elijah Cummings is an idiot, trust me.
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ks520
Jan 18 2005, 11:50 PM
Elijah Cummings is an idiot, trust me.

You would know this first-hand? :/
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AlphaRob
Jan 18 2005, 09:06 AM
Sheex
Jan 18 2005, 03:41 PM
If you can't deal with it, use MSN search.

Shame on you for even speaking those words! :@

1. Martin Luther King Jr. was not hung, but shot
2. It's not funny
3. They could have done something a bit nicer, and kinder.

I don't even get the joke.

First, MLK was black, the noose was directed towards the general race.

2nd the noose is a racial slur, if you will, towards black people simply because a lot of blacks were hung back in the old days.
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Jan 18 2005, 04:11 AM
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Originally Posted by AP
Mountain View, CA (AP) -- Google has stirred up quite a bit of anger among the black community on this day of celebration and remembrance. Each holiday Google changes its standard "Google" icon to a different, festive logo sporting some of that holiday's traditional images. However, Google may have gone a little too far on this Martin Luther King day, when its logo was changed to a "Google" featuring what appears to be a noose hanging from the second 'g'.

"This is an absolute outrage", said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland. When asked if Google should face criminal charges, he added "They should hang for this".

Google has a tradition of being the 'groovey' mid twenties sensation, using humor and a light-hearted atmostphere to pull in its users, making it the number one search engine available on the internet. It recieves more search queries per day than any other webpage, and has a multitude of other websites dedicated to its name, even one which pits one search term against another to see which brings up more pages.

When reached for comment, Google Co-Founder and President Sergey Brin offered a press release stating "We stand by our decision to post the logo. In these days of political correctness, these people need to learn to just take a joke." In contrast to these harsh words, Google did take down the logo and any references to it early in the day, most likely in fear of the African-American lash back.

Images of the page before it was removed.

images can be found here and here

Heh. Sure is pretty interesting to see google put something like that up, even if it was intended for just a joke, it could surely offend many viewers.
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tis funny how no source was given...<_<

people are so easily deceived

hell, they even messed up oin the noose, the drop shadow is darker than the drop on the resat of the word :/

that could quite easliy be fake :P

hell, you can see where it shifts form light drop to dark drop...<_<

not even that but the article given has typos and the quotes seem to be unreliable....especially since it has a senator stating google should hang...yeah, believable</sarcasm>
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I think it's funny..screw political whorectness
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