Comments on: Google and the Swastika (卐) http://www.buzzpirates.com/2008/07/google-swastika/ Pillaging the Latest Buzz For Our Own Amusement Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://www.buzzpirates.com/2008/07/google-swastika/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Jeff Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:18:44 +0000 http://www.buzzpirates.com/?p=87#comment-126 And STILL the plot continues the thicken. TechCrunch has a nice article about the forum that lead to the Swastika reaching the top trends. But now others are trying to duplicate this - like this one example that got "fuck you Google", written upside down, to reach #1 on the trend list. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/14/google-trends-subverted-again/ And STILL the plot continues the thicken. TechCrunch has a nice article about the forum that lead to the Swastika reaching the top trends. But now others are trying to duplicate this – like this one example that got “fuck you Google”, written upside down, to reach #1 on the trend list.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/14/google-trends-subverted-again/

]]> By: Jeff http://www.buzzpirates.com/2008/07/google-swastika/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Jeff Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:49:27 +0000 http://www.buzzpirates.com/?p=87#comment-112 And the plot thickens on this one. The LA Times ran a story about Google apologizing for the symbol. At the same time, it has angered just as many people that Google had to "edit" the trends (trends are trends, right?). Sounds like a lose-lose situation for Google. Oh...an apparently the folks that run the Google Trends are based out of Tel Aviv, just to complicate things further. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/07/google-apologiz.html And the plot thickens on this one. The LA Times ran a story about Google apologizing for the symbol. At the same time, it has angered just as many people that Google had to “edit” the trends (trends are trends, right?). Sounds like a lose-lose situation for Google.

Oh…an apparently the folks that run the Google Trends are based out of Tel Aviv, just to complicate things further.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/07/google-apologiz.html

]]> By: Jeff http://www.buzzpirates.com/2008/07/google-swastika/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Jeff Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:36:57 +0000 http://www.buzzpirates.com/?p=87#comment-109 Looks like the evil eyes at Google have caught on...the symbol suddenly went from #1 on the list to being completely removed from the list altogether. Looks like the evil eyes at Google have caught on…the symbol suddenly went from #1 on the list to being completely removed from the list altogether.

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