Google’s Spudnik Tribute Ticks Off Conservatives

Item: Google’s Sputnik salute angers some conservatives /Jim Puzzanghera, L.A. Times

Seattle Times

More Info: The Mountain View, Calif., company bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week’s decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch — the second “g” in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite — is being blasted by some conservatives. Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was a Cold War enemy, these conservatives griped, but did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. soldiers on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

Question: Is this a legitimate gripe? Or much ado about nothing?