I am very disappointed in Google

[hanz]

When you go to Winter Games Doodle page you see many nice Olympic Games images, but somehow there seems to be something missing. There are no cross-country skiing images :td: . Just because Americans s*ck at cross-country (your hockey team also s*cked) it doesn't mean it wasn't an important part of Olympic Games. There were more cross-country events than any other, but still Google couldn't get time to make one small cross-country skiing image . I am so disappointed that I have even changed my home page from Google to Yahoo :p

 

[Sabre]

Maybe it's hard to portray?

Who knows? They should still have including it, as it is indeed one of the most recognised parts of the winter olympics.

Things like hockey aren't exactly "winter olympics" as you can play them at whatever time of the year...

 

[True_Snake]

Are you sure there was no cross country skiing one?

Check here:
http://www.google.ca/doodle11.html

Perhaps it may have been difficult to fit it in properly .


True_Snake

 

[user-7256]

Who cares? Google doesn't have to get everything perfect you know...

 

[hanz]

Are you sure there was no cross country skiing one?

Check here:
http://www.google.ca/doodle11.html

Perhaps it may have been difficult to fit it in properly .


True_Snake

yes, I am sure. There are Ski Jumping, Freestyle Skiing and Alpine Skiing, but no Cross-Country Skiing

Who cares? Google doesn't have to get everything perfect you know...

but they could try. Skiing is like the first thing you think about when you hear word winter (well, after snow and cold) :imho: , but they have totally left it out.

[edit] BTW thanks to changing my home page I just saw that yahoo has been working on their messenger

 

[Marky_]

Like XP said... who cares :p

 

[Fewski]

Google didn't have to do anything like that, so why bash them for not including something?? It was their choice, the picked the ones they want... Who cares? You can't use them on your site anyways.

 

[RJ]

>> Skiing is like the first thing you think about when you hear word winter (well, after snow and cold) , but they have totally left it out.

True, but they did include four other types of skiing.

What's that saying about not being able to please all of the people all of the time?

 

[sunken]

There was no biathalon either, but I agree, Google doesn't need to show all of them. They miss a few during the summer olympics too, but they are just showing their support for the event and the doodles serve as a direct link to coverage. Seems to me they picked the sports that seemed to be most in people's minds when they think of the spirit of the winter olympics.

 

[stscac]

http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics06_curling.gif

This one is the best.



-Steve