Google Causes Trouble Over D-Day Doodle

D-Day was the start of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied western Europe. As people pay tribute to those that lost their lives, Google seemed to have other, slightly less important things on their mind…

Instead, Honinbo Shusaku, a professional player of the traditional Chinese game, ‘Go’, was placed as the Google Doodle. Users took to Twitter to share their disappointment.

So #GoogleDoodle comes up with a digital Rubik's cube but fail to remember D-Day at the 70th anniversary? Sad really.

— Andreas Gschwari 🕹 (@AGschwari) June 6, 2014

.@google why no #googledoodle for #dday? Pretty important day in history – yes? http://t.co/cHybglxfXE

— Jim Blackburn (@JmbAtlanta) June 6, 2014

Google later tried to rectify the problem by replacing the Doodle with their standard logo and a link to D-Day content. A spokesperson for Google said the Doodle had been a global one, and had been put up “in error”.

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