Google Remembers 9/11 By Doing Nothing

[Church Punk]

I noticed this too...but maybe they are trying to get over it... i mean it happened like 7 years ago, and it didnt really bother anyone at that time too right *sarcasim implied*

[Noel's angel]

Again, I'll point out that they never do anything to remember other terrorist incidents. What makes 9/11 more important than the London bombings, or the troubles in Northern Ireland?

[XIX]

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[Seven77]

Well to their credit (sort of) Google did do this today:

[url="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420861,00.html"]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420861,00.html[/url]

[HolyPhoenix]

Has anybody contacted google? I mean, it isn't too hard to email them is it? Let them know what you think.

[HisChildForever]

A nice American flag worked into their logo would have been perfect.

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='Noel's angel' post='1653312' date='Sep 11 2008, 04:09 PM']I don't recall google ever doing anything for all the people killed in the troubles. I don't think they had anything for the anniversary of the Omagh bomb, but so what? It's not really their job.[/quote]
Maybe I'm just ignorant but I had to google the "Omagh bombing." I was 11 yrs old when that happened. 29 people died. 220 were injured.

Not to be entirely rude, but...

In the Omagh bombing, Irishmen hurt Irishmen. Terrorists? Yes.

However...

[i]Excluding the 19 hijackers[/i] (who were, I will remind you, from a terrorist organization on the other side of the world), it is reported that [b][i]2,975[/i] died[/b] as a direct result of this terrorist activity. Another 24 people are still listed as missing.

From Wikipedia:
[quote]Casualties

There were 2,975 fatalities, excluding the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. An additional 24 people remain listed as missing. All of the fatalities in the attacks were civilians except for 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon. More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

In 2007, the New York City medical examiner's office added Felicia Dunn-Jones to the official death toll from the September 11 attacks. Dunn-Jones died five months after 9/11 from a lung condition which was linked to exposure to dust during the collapse of the World Trade Center.

NIST estimated that approximately 17,400 civilians were in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks, while turnstile counts from the Port Authority suggest that 14,154 people were typically in the Twin Towers by 8:45 a.m. The vast majority of people below the impact zone safely evacuated the buildings, along with 18 individuals who were in the impact zone in the south tower. 1,366 people died who were at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower. According to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact, while the rest were trapped and died after the tower collapsed. As many as 600 people were killed instantly or were trapped at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower.

At least 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning towers (as depicted in the photograph "The Falling Man"), landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below. Some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue, but the roof access doors were locked. No plan existed for helicopter rescues, and on September 11, the thick smoke and intense heat would have prevented helicopters from conducting rescues.

A total of 411 emergency workers who responded to the scene died as they attempted to implement rescue and fire suppression efforts. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) lost 341 firefighters and 2 FDNY paramedics. The New York City Police Department lost 23 officers. The Port Authority Police Department lost 37 officers, as well as a K9 dog named Sirius. Private EMS units lost 8 additional EMTs and paramedics.

Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., an investment bank on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 658 employees, considerably more than any other employer. Marsh Inc., located immediately below Cantor Fitzgerald on floors 93–101 (the location of Flight 11's impact), lost 295 employees, and 175 employees of Aon Corporation were killed. After New York, New Jersey was the hardest hit state, with the city of Hoboken sustaining the most fatalities.

[b]Weeks after the attack, the estimated death toll was over 6,000. The city was only able to identify remains for approximately 1,600 of the victims at the World Trade Center. The medical examiner's office also collected "about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead." Bone fragments were still being found in 2006 as workers were preparing to demolish the damaged Deutsche Bank Building.[/b][/quote]

I'm not saying it's "more important." I am, however, saying that it was a bigger attack - much bigger. It has impacted the whole world.

There are car bombings in Iraq all the time. I'm sure there are similar acts elsewhere in the world.

You notice no one mentioned the Oklahoma city bombing. No one gets all worked up over that. Why? Because while it was sad, it wasn't anything like September 11th. I'm not sure anything ever has been.

I understand that you think it's silly for Americans to be upset over Google not doing anything. I myself think it's a little silly to expect everyone everywhere to make a corporate public display, especially if they are international. (Though, I stop to say I would applaud any company that did. Patriotism is honorable.) However, September 11th [b]is[/b] a big deal... an international big deal.

I find your comments to be a bit insensitive.

If the Omagh bombing truly hurt you - and continues to impact your life - then surely you can understand how greatly we, Americans, are impacted by the remembrance of September 11, 2001.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1653339' date='Sep 11 2008, 05:59 PM']They have specially designed home pages for users from different countries. Different users from around the world see different content.


Nice that they had a "lights out" page for a man-made global warming activist day. But nothing for 9/11.[/quote]
Yeah I remember that.


To be honest, I think I remember them honouring those who were killed/injured on Sept 11 in the past. I can't remember exactly what it was though. I think they just put a picture of the twin towers standing. I dunno.

[franciscanheart]

i did a simple google search and found this from September 18, 2001:

[img]http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/google-home-18sep2001-232pm.gif[/img]

see the rest of google's 9/11 efforts here: [url="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/"]http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/[/url]

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Noel's angel' post='1653312' date='Sep 11 2008, 06:09 PM']I don't recall google ever doing anything for all the people killed in the troubles. I don't think they had anything for the anniversary of the Omagh bomb, but so what? It's not really their job.[/quote]



Google is also an American based company. It would make sense that they don't make a big deal about tragedies and holidays that are predominant in other countries. That aside 9/11 is bigger because it wasn't just an American tragedy, it affected people from all over the world. This was the World Trade Center, remember, and people from close to a hundred different countries were attacked, injured, or killed that day. I can't say that it really occurred to me whether or not they would honor 9/11 but it makes more sense that they would do so for that event than for something that I'm sure half the world either doesn't know about or remember. If you don't remember 9/11 either you were too young/weren't born or you've been living under a rock. That's not to belittle other tragedies or holidays, I'm just saying... it makes more sense that google would recognize American stuff.

[prose]

Did they do anything to recognize the day Pearl Habour happened? (out of curiosity?)

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='prose' post='1655885' date='Sep 15 2008, 11:53 AM']Did they do anything to recognize the day Pearl Habour happened? (out of curiosity?)[/quote]
don't think so. i think they only remembered things like the chinese new year, mothers day, st pattys, and the 4th. (but i could be wrong about the 4th...)

[franciscanheart]

google logos: [url="http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html"]http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html[/url]

veterans day:
[img]http://www.google.com/logos/veterans07.gif[/img]

independence day:
[img]http://www.google.com/logos/july4th07.gif[/img]

vote (2004):
[img]http://www.google.com/logos/vote2004.gif[/img]

it seems to me that most of the logos celebrate happy times, not sour ones.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='hugheyforlife' post='1655896' date='Sep 15 2008, 02:05 PM']it seems to me that most of the logos celebrate happy times, not sour ones.[/quote]

That makes sense...

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1655968' date='Sep 15 2008, 02:00 PM']That makes sense...[/quote]
I thought so...