The Google Threshold
6th June 2014
Today is D-Day. Google, which has a penchant for creating special ‘doodles’ on its home page for Special Events, apparently considers today Nothing Special.
Of course, for Rachel Carson, Google pulled out all the stops, although Carson’s book Silent Spring prompted a jihad against DDT and other insecticides that has been responsible for more deaths from tropical disease around the world than occurred during the Normandy invasion.
Maybe that’s it — there’s a death count threshold that has to be exceeded in order to rate a special ‘doodle’ on Google.