Palestinians get their own Google domain

[Behind the Aegis]

Google on Thursday unveiled www.google.ps, a new Web domain for residents of the Palestinian territories, Ma'an news agency reported.

"Arabic-speaking users in the Palestinian territories have had to visit foreign domains in order to search in Arabic," Ma'an quoted the company saying in a statement, noting that the new URL would be designed for Palestine-specific search results.

The domain will not serve residents of East Jerusalem.

Starting Thursday, new searches will automatically redirect to the .ps domain, at which the user can select Arabic or English, but that "any user can type in any Google domain they prefer to go," Ma'an quoted the company saying.

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[timeforpeace]

1. They're always on the cutting edge.

[aranthus]

2. Of course, Google is still master of their domain. n/t

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[azurnoir]

4. Hate to disappoint but that is the logo on all Google sites

it is to honor Hans Christian Orsted's birthday

Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields, which is an important part of electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century.<1> He was also the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_%C3%98rsted

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[azurnoir]

6. It is the exact same image BTW it is Orsted not Andersen

all you have to do is move the cursor over it and it will tell you that

[henank]

7. Well, the mods deleted my message

so you will not be able to see the logo that was there. The mods apparently think I'm lying when I said the logo was there. I was not lying and I saved the logo to my own photo account for the record because I knew it would be taken down. But the mods don't want you to see what a google designer created.

Reality is a hard thing for some people to accept.

[LeftishBrit]

8. I have looked at both the Palestinian and the Israeli Google sites

and found the same logo - which is also the same as the UK one. (Maybe someone had put something undesirable which got removed.) I was also curious about whether the two google domains would bring you to the same sites with the same searches, and at least in English they do. I can read little Hebrew, and no Arabic, so I could not compare their own-language search engines.

[Violet_Crumble]

12. I'm pretty sure the Google logos are global ones most of the time....

I've never really checked it out, but it makes sense to me that Google would use the same logo universally most of the time. The same logo's on the Australian site as the Palestinian site coz I just tried it out.

[ConsAreLiars]

9. Post your "saved photo" here, the screencap, not some invention.

It's easy to do. Lying and yelling "They/you are Hitlerites"is also very easy. If you can do do the second you ought to be able to do the first.

(edit tiny typo and add a bit to the header)

[henank]

10. I posted it twice.

Once from a screencap and once from my own account. Both were deleted. Take it up with the mods. I wasn't claiming anyone is a Hitlerite or anything of the sort. Those are your words not mine.

[ConsAreLiars]

14. I see your false accusation has already been proven to be a lie.

I figured if more people saw what you are parading around here as "evidence," and certainly posting on right wing hate sites which share your views, you might be prodded slightly in the direction of regarding facts as relevant.

There are ways to point people at an image without directly posting it here.

As for your comparisons of others to Nazis, go read your last 20 or 50 posts.

(edit to replace dropped word)

[azurnoir]

13. It was the Orsted logo, what was wrong

was how she interpreted it

ETA wonder what the Persid meteor shower logo would have been taken as

[Violet_Crumble]

11. Yeah, that happens when people don't read the rules...

Images aren't allowed to be posted in this forum. Either you haven't bothered reading the rules or think they don't apply to you. Why not invest the time you've taken to whinge about it to familiarise yrself with the rules that everyone here has to follow?