When one performs a search for the word ‘Jew’ in Google, the world’s most popular search engine, a horribly anti-Semitic hate site called “JewWatch” is the number one listing.
A concerned individual has started a petition drive to demand Google remove this hate site: Remove Jew Watch
Jerusalem Post has an article that provides good background on this problem:
What is a Jew? Those hoping to find out from a Google search are in for an unpleasant surprise. The first of 1.75 million entries that appear when you type “Jew” into the search engine is an anti-Semitic site.
This discovery by a New York real-estate developer, among others, has sparked a cyberspace showdown, and a bid to alter the situation by a small band of Internet experts.
IMPORTANT NOTE: HonestReporting recently challenged GoogleNews’ inclusion of JihadUnspun in the increasingly popular GoogleNews site.
Though both issues involve anti-Semitism and Google, there’s a key difference: JewWatch’s prominence is due to a default output of the Google algorithm’s reading of all web pages. JihadUnspun, on the other hand, has been actively selected by GoogleNews for inclusion as a legitimate news site. There is a significant editoral decision involved with GoogleNews that is far less on the main Google search. We therefore view GoogleNews’ inclusion of JihadUnspun as a more egregious violation.
Meanwhile, JihadUnspun remains on GoogleNews.
UPDATE 4/13: New York Times has an article on this matter, and the general issue of hate groups indexed on search engines.
UPDATE 4/26: The Jewwatch battle is won…according to CNET.
