Google Honors Tetris Over D-Day

This weekend was the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion to liberate Europe, but you wouldn't know it from reading Google. Google chose to use its frequently changing logo to honor the 25th anniversary of the video game Tetris instead of the brave men and women who stormed the beach at Normandy. As you might expect, a certain subset of political blogs took issue with Google's choices. Newsbusters.com said: "This is no departure for Google, a firm that finds it nearly impossible to post images celebrating any American holidays or important milestones in American history. So, what we have here is just one more example of Google's essentially anti-American policies." World Net Daily said: "Google's decision to honor Tetris rather than D-Day, however, is only the latest in a string of criticized decisions about how the Internet giant uses its homepage 'doodles' to recognize special occasions... Google has a history of ignoring major American patriotic and religious ... (link)