Jeri - it still means the same here. If it didn't the OP would not even have started this thread, would he? But, since you persist in denying that it can still mean the same to us as it always did — though we are here to tell you that it does, and you are not — I still wonder what you can possibly have meant, within that context, by 'most people', if not that only American opinion counts IYO.

Nobody is 'offended', I repeat, Ebbie; there are just some who feel that a supposedly impartial forum-provider is acting inappropriately in using an explicitly political symbol as a logo. You say you now realise it has an explicitly political history, but still appear to be denying the implications of this.

If Google is a commercial enterprise, is it not being a little unwise in acting in a fashion liable to alienate, or at least give pause to [as it clearly has done - hence, I repeat, this thread] a substantial segment of its clientele?