Search for "Yiddish," get suggestion of gas used in death camps
Posted: March 11, 2008
4:23 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Is some nitwit just making ghastly and inappropriate decisions about search suggestions?
Or is the whole multi-gazillion-dollar business running on auto-pilot?
Those were some of the questions going through the minds of the search giant's users today as they discovered a query for "Yiddish" images suggested "Also try zyklon b" – the insidious gas used to kill Jews in Nazi death camps.
Spokesmen for Google were not available in response to calls and e-mails from WND.
But the latest outrage from Google has some Internet users wondering what's up with a disturbing pattern of anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli policies.
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Israeli town is suing Google after surprised municipal officials discovered Google Earth, the popular, user-driven satellite map, labels their city as stolen Palestinian land.
"[The label] is simply complete nonsense," Yossi Ben-Artzi, a history professor at Israel's Haifa University told Yediot Ahronot, Israel's leading daily. "Kiryat Yam was built on sand dunes, and there wasn't any Palestinian village in the area. The lands were bought in 1939 by the Gav Yam construction company."
The professor was responding to
