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By Amanda Carpenter

Google's limits

While President Obama joined European leaders to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day over the weekend, Google posted an icon to its popular search page to memorialize something else: Tetris, the video game where players configure various-sized blocks for points.

"Celebrating 25 years of the Tetris Effect - courtesy Holding LLC," it said.

"I have to say, though, that this is no departure for Google, a firm that finds it nearly impossible to post images celebrating any American holidays or important milestones in American history," wrote Warner Todd Huston of Newsbusters.org. "So what we have here is just one more example of Google's essentially anti-American policies."

Mr. Huston isn't the only one to have complained Google's icons have given American soldiers the short end of the stick. World Net Daily's Drew Zahn charged in a column that Google has repeatedly "snubbed" Veterans Day and Memorial Day.

Google has brushed off previous complaints by saying its "special logos tend to be lighthearted and often scientific in nature."

Spokesman Sunny Gettinger said in a statement, "We do not believe we can convey the appropriate somber tone through this medium to mark holidays like Memorial Day."

Mr. Zahn has noted, however, that on Remembrance Day in 2006, a holiday to honor fallen heroes in Australia, Canada, Britain and Ireland, Google's logo incorporated three poppies - a nod to the Canadian poem "In Flanders Fields." In the poem, poppies are cemetery flowers for war heroes.

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