Columbus Day Theme by Bing, Not Google, Yahoo, Ask.com or AOL

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October 12, 2009

Columbus Day Theme by Bing, Not Google, Yahoo, Ask.com or AOL

Today is Columbus Day, and the only search engine to have a special logo or theme up today is Microsoft's Bing. Here is a picture of Bing today, with one "hot spot" highlighted:

Pretty neat theme, background and hot spots. We also, at the Search Engine Roundtable, have a Columbus sailed the ocean blue theme. Here is a picture:

We don't have logos from the other major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Ask.com or AOL - but that is not surprising. In fact, last year, Google had a Paddington Bear Doodle on Columbus day.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

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posted rustybrick in Search Engine Industry News at October 12, 2009 9:15 AM Comments (5)

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Perhaps the other engines have decided not to celebrate "Native American genocide" such as
forced sterilization and germ warfare.

Posted by Justin at October 12, 2009 11:48

Perhaps...

Posted by Barry Schwartz at October 12, 2009 12:21

Possibly they should call it "Beginning of the end for Native Americans day"

Posted by Rob at October 12, 2009 12:43

Acknowledging history is preferable to ignoring it. The Wikipedia article Bing links to discusses both the significance of the day as well as the reasons we're opposed to it.

Posted by Wade at October 12, 2009 12:46

Interesting...I once worked for a company called the Magellan Group and we did try and launch a website named Columbus DT for the American market but it never really took off...

Posted by sem4u at October 13, 2009 05:25

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