I agree and felt horrible about this, however, just as with 9-11, people waited for things to fade a bit, this may be taken wrong or offensive at this point in time.  I understand your thinking of course but it may leave a bitter taste. Just saying from seeing things in the past have the same feedback. 

Other thoughts on this?

After the 2010 Qinghai earthquake in China, Google China's homepage showed this colorless logo in remembrance:



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Maybe DuckDuckGo could do something similar with the recent Norway bombing/shooting?

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maybe just make it silver?

Most definitely agreed! Ill get on it now.