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In case you're wondering why this is news, there are numerous obvious, worldwide, relevant results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/25-years-later-tank-man-st... (Note: Microsoft owns this page!)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/remembering-the-t...

>>sounds+(OP)
In case it's not immediately obvious, today, June 4, is the anniversary of the event.

>>jp57+ea
Yes,the event... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

HN looks like "A Quiet Place"

>>sounds+(OP)
>Note: Microsoft owns this page!

Microsoft does not have a stake in MSNBC anymore.

>>jp57+ea
It's quite silly though that image search gives no results while web search gives lots of image results.

>>Brendi+Xk
Wow I didn't realize this, but it appears to be true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC

"Microsoft divested itself of its stakes in the MSNBC channel in 2005 and in msnbc.com in July 2012."

I thought their Edge browser was still promoting links to MSNBC, but looking at Edge now, I see the links are to MSN.com which is a completely different thing and actually a Microsoft news portal.

Interesting the news channel is still called MSNBC though even though Microsoft doesn't have any ownership in it anymore.

>>sounds+(OP)
Even if one of the most famous photographs ever taken wasn't called "tank man", it'd still be pretty weird for there to zero results. Try misspelling "man" or "tank", you'll get many results. "tanke man" says "including results for 'tank man'".

>>samspe+cq
When you've spent millions and years promoting a brand ID, you don't change it just because ownership changed. (Another example: If I understand correctly, General Electric doesn't have anything to do with GE-branded light bulbs. They sold the business. But the buyer wanted more than the factory and the distribution arrangements, they wanted the name that people recognized.)

>>digbyb+Ey
Or "tank man Tiananmen square" results in results. Still kind of odd, this takes duck duck go with it too.

>>digbyb+Ey
My favorite being : "Tank Man Meme" and you get more or less the expected search.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tank+Man+Meme

>>Animal+oB
And just to bring it all full-circle in this thread, albeit a slightly different direction:

NBC's chime was developed when it was owned by GE in the 1930s (the notes are G-E-C – General Electric Company). When GE sold its interest, that chime continued to be used.

GE later regained control of NBC, and once again sold the last of its interest to Comcast a few years ago. But the G-E-C jingle remains unchanged, the first audio trademark granted in the US.

>>beache+aI
"tank man Tiananmen" returns none. fishy

>>beache+aI
Maybe it's changed over time since this was posted, but right now the top result for "tank man" on DDG is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

and though the image searches do show a bunch of other things (all including "tank man" in the name at least), they _do_ also include the iconic photo at least once:

http://www.maryscullyreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/...

which I did not see in the bing results...

>>digbyb+Ey
tank man Beijing returns one result

>>belter+jf
Christ. I wasn't avoiding mentioning it out of fear, I just thought that the three links in the parent would be sufficient for people to resolve the anaphor.

>>whafro+VK
> NBC's chime was developed when it was owned by GE in the 1930s (the notes are G-E-C – General Electric Company).

Apparently this is folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_chimes#%22General_Electric...

>>sounds+(OP)
Thank you for posting this.

>>samspe+cq
I guess media folks are pretty persnickety about their brands. Time Warner Cable wasn't owned by Time Warner for quite a while, and I was very surprised when I first learned that.