St Andrew’s Day … St David’s Day … St George’s Day … Now I can guess what the excuse will be – St George’s Day has been postponed until the 2nd of May by the church because it clashes with Easter and Easter is more important in the religious calendar than a saint’s day – [...]

Oh dear, looks like the fuck up fairy has visited Google!

Google appears to have finally found some balls and has told the Chinese government that it is no longer willing to censor search results. The announcement – and the associated threat to pull its operations out of China altogether – was prompted by the hacking of two Google email accounts used by Chinese human rights [...]

After complaining on Sunday that Google decided to mark Remembrance Sunday with a picture of the Cookie Monster rather than a poppy, it was suggested that we should give Google the benefit of the doubt and see if they use a poppy logo on Remembrance Day itself. Well, today was Remembrance Day and guess what?  [...]

Google has had a Sesame Street logo on its site for most of the week to mark the 4oth anniversary of the show. Presumably the makers of Sesame Street are presumably paying them to display the logo because not only did the Google UK site fail to mark the 5th of November, but they have [...]

It’s traditional to bedeck websites with scary images at Halloween.  Google has this rather tame offering: I prefer something a bit more scary …