Yesterday, besides for it being Yom Kippur, was also Confucius’ birthday and Google had a logo up for the birthday in some Google properties.

Here is the logo:

According to Matt McGee, the logo was not live in Google.com or on Google France but it was live on Google UK, Germany, Spain, Austria, Russia, Serbia, Australia, New Zealand and other properties.

Why not the US or France? Maybe because it was Yom Kippur and Google didn’t want to deal with the complaints about why was there a logo for Confucius but not for a major Jewish holiday?

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