Now that the search engine is dictator-friendly, Point Five thinks the time has come to change the logo. Lots of other suggestions at Michelle Malkin's blog.
John Naughton, in the Observer, mourns the end of an ideal:
It was difficult to decide which was more nauseating - the decision itself or the attempts by the Googlefolk to rationalise it. The argument essayed by co-founder Sergey Brin - essentially that some information is better than none - is simply pathetic.
The truth is that when faced with the first really hard moral choice of their young lives, the Google boys copped out. And what makes their failure dismaying is that for a few halcyon years after the foundation of their company in 1999, there was a feeling abroad that maybe this really would be a different kind of venture - one more in tune with the original libertarian ethos of the net. Now it looks as though the cynics were right all along: in the end, money talks, and it says that principles are expensive.
UPDATE: Sebastian Mallaby weighs both sides of the argument in his Washington Post column.
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