Why no Easter graphic on Google today?

[derby378]

Take a look for yourself:

http://www.google.com/

Lately, it seems that Google has been celebrating an increasing number of religious, political, and cultural anniversaries. So what happened to Easter?

No big whoop - just curious.

[Turbineguy]

1. War on Easter

Obviously.

[Not Me]

2. damn, yo beat me to it.

nt

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Excuse me.

But, the name of this battle is "Easter Under Attack"

[drm604]

3. Don't you know?

Obama has forbidden it as an overt religious expression! :sarcasm:

[GoCubsGo]

4. None on Yahoo!, either.

Of course, I don't recall seeing one for Passover, either. But, it IS kind of odd...

[RoyGBiv]

5. They haven't done Easter for awhile ...

They used to. Rumor has it (and it is rumor ... I personally have no idea) that as Google grew in prominence, certain religious groups were complaining about being under-represented, so they pretty much nixed offering a special graphic for overtly religious holidays that weren't also U.S.federal holidays, e.g. Christmas.

[angstlessk]

6. I recon the combo easter/passover with eggs dripping with blood was just something

they decided against?

[krkaufman]

7. Wow. Yeah, Google has almost always reflected the holiday in their logo

strange.

some past examples can be seen, here: http://www.google.com/holidaylogos00.html

[anigbrowl]

8. christian symbolism will piss off non-christians. Bunnies and eggs will piss off fundies.

No-win situation. Better to stay out of it.