Friday, June 19, 2009

Gay Google

Caleb Eggensperger noticed that Google shows a multicolored bar above the search results when you search for [gay], [lesbian] and other related terms. Google's colorful bar is not accidental: at the end of June, there are many gay pride celebrations around the world.


"Googlers care deeply about creating a workplace that affords equal treatment for all our staff, and while we do it regardless of any accolades we think our efforts might bring, recognition from outside organizations does mean a lot to us. (...) It's particularly exciting given that this is a time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally, Gayglers) around the world," mentioned a blog post from 2007.


{ Image licensed as Creative Commons by Clay Caviness. More photos from the 2007 NYC Pride Parade. }

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Just in the spirit of equality, they should introduce a whole lot of other colour bars as well.

I also noticed that they don't display any bar when I search for "straight".
Yeah, I'm with gravi_t. Nothing special happens when I search for "privilege." All it does it show some dictionary entries that I don't have the time to comprehend.
O dear, Google doesn't display a colored bar when you search for "straight". The internet is full of lovely remarks about being gay and now they also get their own colored bar on Google??? It's so difficult being straight nowadays.

As a gay male I feel all the shitty remarks I have to put up with are suddenly swept away by this colored bar on Google. I pity all you straight guys for not having the "privilege" of a colored bar on Google. I will definitely complain to Google about this serious lack of equality.
The evil Microsoft insiders are corroding Google from the inside! Bingo!
Umm, let the gay people enjoy that colored bar... we're just going to enjoy legal, normal, preferable treatment ;)
Again with all the str8 people talking about our privileges... As if we can kiss or hold hands in public without some kind of reaction and you can't.

Everyday is str8 pride day. What's your problem?
Um, Anonymous.

Everyone here is joking, except maybe gravi_t and you. Lighten up and enjoy the Google fabulousness while it lasts :-) Moreover, enjoy the overreactions from uptight people if they bother to notice.
You really don't want to know what I think........
It is not for solely for gay guys to enjoy the rainbow flag; It is for anyone who searches on a gay topic. SO no discrimination going on there, if you want the flag, search for a fag :P
It's one more privilege given by the gay lobby to themselves.
What a catch-22 -- the rainbow-flag discriminates against the gay folks. If they want to be a part of ending the discrimination, there has to come a point at which they stop pointing it out.