Anyway, I use DDG from time to time, I like it but the results aren't always the best in my experience. More power to you, I hope DDG works well for you, your comments in this thread just seem pretty disingenuous.
Google has always shown doodles for most of it's history, and it has often had a 1 or 2 line subtitle for certain special events, emergencies, or holidays. Egads man! It's taking up approximately the same physical space it always had, comparing this to Yahoo's portal is ridiculous.
Also, if you use the Omnibox or other search boxes in the browser, you don't even see it. You only see this if you visit www.google.com
I'm trying to reclaim the name for positive associations. Many people don't even know how Oliver Cromwell was, I've even encountered British people who didn't know the history.
Anyway, there's actor James Cromwell. We need to band together and overcome the negative association with the good ole' Lord Protector.
(My grandfather used to tell me that he traced our ancestry and supposedly we are closely/directly descended, but I don't buy it. On the other hand, 23andme localized my ancestral DNA pretty strongly to the UK)
He was held responsible for a massacre 5 miles from where I was born. I did a school project on it and stood in a stone tower room where local women and children had gone for refuge but were discovered and slaughtered. Even closer to home was a spot where as Cromwell's army passed a man stood looking at them. His behaviour was viewed as impudent and he was summarily hanged.
As a small kid he was the devil incarnate to me.
Since then my view has become a lot less black and white but it's hard to shake off childhood associations entirely.
His statue is still in front of the House of Commons though, I think. I found that sort of strange, like having a statue of Hitler in front of the Reichstag or other government buildings.
The story I was told growing up that he was hated so much when he died, they dug up his body and desecrated it.
It is discussed by people on 'political' tv != it is political.
You can politicize anything you want. But there is nothing inherently political about showing support for an LGBT human being. 'What neoconservatives want to make political issues of' is an entirely different matter.
The moment something is merely mentioned in a law, it is henceforth to be considered under the header of "political topic"? Why? Because some political strategist (or worse, lobbyist) told you it was worth legislating for or against?
Your position can be summed up as "It is okay for Google to make Google Doodles about person X until whatever person X worked on became politicized".
Why was it okay for them to make a doodle about Simone de Beauvoir but not about your fellow LGBT human beings? This is the straw that broke the camel's back for you? Really?
It is unfortunate that you are so willing to consume as 'politics' whatever topic political strategists have decided to include in their party's talking points.
It is fortunate that said political strategists chose LGBT rights and not, say, the legality of JavaScript. Because then your Google search would have been a moot point entirely, JS having been made "political".
Why is that a problem? If they want to send a message to a lot of people, their front page would be the best place, wouldn't it? God forbid you get a little bit of human rights activism with your search results...
There's a big difference between sending messages to text editor users and a logo on a website. Note that the logo is always there; it's just a little different this time.
Every google doodle is telling you google's stance on something. Google's doodle of MLK the other week told you their stance on black rights. How is this any different, except for the fact that gay rights make you uncomfortable?
I find it horrific that you consider your rights to be personally violated by your making use of a free, non-government-controlled, non-required public service.
I find it also horrific that you make a false parallel to text editors which also have demonstrable 'political' (as you've employed the term) positions.
