Did Google kill a … donkey?

A few days ago I needed to know whether Google had actually killed a particular product or merely put it on a back burner, so I typed into the company’s search-engine box: “Did Google kill …”

What happened next is seen in this screen capture:

Gobsmacked, I was. Did Google kill a donkey?

In a hoofbeat my interest in that work-related query was gone, replaced by an irresistible need to know whether – and, if so, why – Google had treated some poor donkey worse than a brute might treat a rented mule.

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