Google uses luge sled in logo
Earlier this morning I did a brief post on the tragedy at Canada’s Winter Olympic games when Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed after being thrown off his sled during a on a practice run.
Google is ripping off the Olympics to advertise some of its services, featuring them in its logo.
Today, the day after the tragedy, its logo shows a luge sled cornering a run at close to the angle experienced by Kumaritashvili just before he was hurled into a steel pole.
Was this an awful coincidence? Or is it Google deliberately exploiting the occurrence?
One has to hope it was the former, although it’s hard to imagine whoever authorised the image wasn’t aware of the tragedy, which has shocked people around the world.
If it was deliberate, it was crass even beyond Google’s standards.
Either way, IMHO it owes the Georgian team and Kumaritashvili’s family an immediate apology.
I’ve just posted this as a separate story:
This morning I tore a strip off Google for running a Winter Olympics logo bearing the image of a luge competitor.
“Was this an awful coincidence? Or is it Google deliberately exploiting the occurrence?” – I asked, referring to yesterday’s tragedy when Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed after being thrown off his sled.
It was apparently neither.
According to Tom Fulp in a Reader’s Write, “The Google logo was on their site before the accident happened.”
That being so, I apologise without reservation to Google and the Google artist for thinking ill of them.
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