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Google, topical as always, prepared one of its famed doodles in celebration of today’s passing asteroid and the fact that we’re all not post-apocalyptic shadows of our former selves. The Google Doodle team, however, couldn’t have anticipated just how unfortunately relevant they actually would be following the unexpected and destructive meteor explosion over Russia.
The contraband doodle in question had the “g” in Google’s normal logo jump aside for the occasional pummeling projectile from space. It was, of course, quickly taken down, but Search Engine Land’s news editor Barry Schwartz spotted it before the removal. Google confirmed to ABC that it had removed the GIF out of respect saying:
Out of respect for those injured in the extraordinary meteor shower in Russia earlier today, we have removed today’s doodle from the Google homepage. The doodle was created to mark Asteroid 2012 DA14 passing Earth.
But as we all know, nothing on the Internet ever truly dies, and the logo can still be found right over here. [Search Engine Land]
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Thank God for that. I can tell my mum she isn’t going mad after all.
I hate when stuff like this happens. I’m sure those that were injured and the people that care about them have bigger things to worry about than whether or not Google did a doodle of an asteroid.
totally agree, everyone in this world is over sensitive
I agree. I think possibly because they don’t want to risk getting bad press.
Totally agree. Like delaying the release of a movie that shows someone being murdered, because someone has been murdered in real life… in the US alone close to 400 folk are murdered each day so either we only ‘care’ about high profile victims or the whole sensitivity thing is BS