OK to be fair, no one knows if this was intentional or not, but as the article below notes, there are enough obscure holidays that Google will give celebrity to via creative logo mods, that them doing nothing on Memorial Day does seem odd at best.

If it was some anti military or anti war demonstration, well that is their right.  But it is fairly childish.  WND certainly makes the case that this is deliberate, but that is unclear.

If it was an accidental oversight, one might ask why so much attention is given to so many other days, many of which are not even recognized here, and so little attention given to our Federal Holidays.

Either way, it is a slap in the face of Vets.  My Father in law who passed away a few years ago was a World War II vet.  He deserves better.

Google forgets Memorial Day? 

Search engine’s catchy holiday logos have honored Earth Day, Persian New Year – but not war dead

Google’s habit of celebrating holidays like New Year’s, Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving by altering its logo to match the season’s theme has been extended in the past to honor the birthdays of famous inventors, scientists, artists and musicians, as well as Earth Day and the Persian New Year, but on the day Americans honor those who died serving their country, it’s business as usual at the Internet-search giant.

Memorial Day visitors to the website found Google’s standard logo – but no mention of Memorial Day. This was true as well at the company’s news-search site.

Since 1999, Google has redesigned its logo for major holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, as well as minor ones like Ground Hog Day and St. Patrick’s Day. It’s even honored artists like Picasso, Monet, and Andy Warhol as well as Earth Day and the Burning Man festival.

"If you go back through the Google archives, you’ll find that, although it has over the years commemorated Shichi-go-san being celebrated in Japan, Bastille Day in France, and Korean Liberation Day, it appears that Google has never dressed up its logo for Memorial Day," wrote Newsbusters blogger Noel Sheppard.

When Google News launched its beta site in April 2002, it said its mission was to construct an unbiased news engine free of human intervention using new methods of aggregating news from sources worldwide.

According to the April Nielsen/NetRatings report, 49 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. in March 2006 were carried out on Google.

Last week, WorldNetDaily reported Google’s decision to ban several Internet news sites from its search archives because of their criticism of radical Islam.

Along with the dropping of conservative news providers, Google has received other complaints of liberal bias:

• Rejecting an ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes

• Rejecting ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

• Allowing the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy."

In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision to giving preferential placement to large and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent.

As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.

As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean.

Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton.

So this is not the first time they omitted it on Memorial Day.

One wonders why?  A quick look at the Google Logo page above confirms that they did not do so for Veterans Day either.

Interesting.