Google Search Goes Gays

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No, the web’s biggest search service isn’t malfunctioning. That rainbow you see across Google.com when you search for gay terms? It’s on purpose. Gay-related searches on the site are having that staid blue line swapped out for some pride action. Is it here to stay, or just to celebrate pride in June? More notable: While searches for “gay,” “lesbian,” “bisexual” and even “drag queen” bring up the rainbow bar, a certain blogger’s favorite insult does not.

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By: editor editor
On: Jun 24, 2009
Tagged: Google, Internet, Pride

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No. 1 · AlwaysGay
Nice touch.

Jun 24, 2009 at 1:40 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · galefan2004
This is all well and good, but with the track record google has, there is no way in hell I will ever use it. I’m not fond of the fact that they track everyone’s searches and share that information with certain governments (see China and most likely they have a back door arrangement with the US as well).

Jun 24, 2009 at 8:59 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · Jake the libertarian
@galefan2004:

haha, you said back door.

Jun 24, 2009 at 9:19 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · frisky
Does the bar turn black when you search for the President?

Jun 24, 2009 at 9:21 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · Marc
Doesn’t seem to work with Google.ca

Jun 24, 2009 at 10:25 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · homofied
when you search “emo” is there a rail-thin denim colored stripe across the top?

Jun 24, 2009 at 11:42 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · galefan2004
@Jake the libertarian: You like the word back door? How about the phrase, “I wanna get fucked in the back door?” What, to much?

Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · allstarecho · Member · 186 comments
I call bullshit. When I searched for “gay rights”, nothing changed. No rainbow.

Jun 24, 2009 at 2:17 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · allstarecho · Member · 186 comments
Ahh, ok, if I search for just “gay”, it works. But “gay rights” doesn’t. Interesting.

Jun 24, 2009 at 2:19 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 10 · erkki
It’s just a specific list of terms mostly related to pride that activate the rainbow bar for the rest of this month. Same as last year (although I think it was slightly different in appearance.)

Jun 25, 2009 at 1:11 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 11 · Emily
it works for “transgender” too :)

Jun 25, 2009 at 1:45 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 12 · hyhybt
Odd, though, that it only turns color for those terms when used by themselves. How useful is a search on just “gay” anyway?

Jun 25, 2009 at 1:55 am · @Reply · Flag