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I maked n't believe I would need to compose this same rather observation twice within a yr. But today, on D-day, I detect yet again a spectacular difference between Google and Microsoft. And just in case example, one can about read the grounds as a rebuff from Google to the United States, to the commonwealths who unified in forfeiture during Second world war, and to President Obama on a day of his personal leading in commemorating international warfare and peace.

I doed a similar observation on Discovery day, when Microsoft took to reward Columbus and his explorations ' significance to American history and the macrocosm, while Google selected to reward - wait for it - Paddington Bear 's `` birthday. '' See my post from then here.)

Today is of courseD-Day, the Sixty-fifth anniversary of a day in which over 2, 000 American soldiers lost their lives, directing the fashion in the greatest operation in the history of the existence, as the initial landing to emancipate Europe and the beginning of the terminal of the Nazi imperium.

Google and Microsoft are two great American companies, which run globally. Each holds a public face to the creation through signature online holdings - their hunting engines. In Google 's instance, that page atGoogle.com is their perfection
public face, since they are at nucleus a mighty hunt engine.

Have a look at the two pages today. Microsoft 's Bing search-engine utilizes its homepage to mark D-day, with a dramatic pic of Normandie Beach today, and mouse-over popups supplying historical highlights and links to more info on the fight 's signficance to Second world war and to cosmos history.

Google employs its homepage to mark the Twenty-fifth anniversary of the innovation of the video game Tetris.

The mouse-over popup on the cutesyGoogle logotype reads, `` Observing 25 eld of the Tetris event - courtesy of Tetris LLC. '' ( I say one could read that as, predictably, a coporate advertizing, right there on Google 's homepage. )

Even as I remarked on October 12, this makes n't look to be a fix issue, or an issue of appealing to a world-wide audience - both Microsoft and Google cognise my location, and as a matter of fact each is dish up a page placed for me in the United States.

Make n't get me incorrect: Tetris was an diverting and engrossing game. As a immature cat I passed hrs dropping the barrooms and contours to accommodate into the arising heap below.

But at certain moments in life, you pose aside infantile things. Unless you 're assay to do another sort of statement.

Remark: I am a Microsoft employee. But this is not a Microsoft corporate blog, it Holds my personal blog - and I 've been cognise to tweak Microsoft here frequently too. This is my personal observation infinite.

I should acknowledge I am stupefied - and personally shocked - by the decision-making over at the Googleplex, and the statement they select to direct to the creation.

President Obama is guiding our commission himself at Normandy Beach today, for the international event with other creation leaders retrieving a second of world-wideimportance.Self-evidently Eric Schmidt and the Google ring were n't on board therewith, andby their mode of thought saw something more important to tag.

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