Transcript of Bush, Sharon statements

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush met Wednesday at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and praised Sharon's proposed withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.

The Palestinians object to a provision in the plan, which would allow Israel to retain control of six blocs of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

But how honest is Google?

If it's true for Google it should be true for other search engines that haven't had petitions presented to them. So I looked at Altavista, Excite, mamma.com, MSN, alltheweb, Netscape and yahoo. All these searches gave me results concerning Jewish dating services, who is a Jew and what is Judaism.

However, Scrubtheweb.com gave jewwatch.com as first hit and twice within the first three.

google's gormless geeks are full of it.

This from Wall Street Journal and nyt

<< In Search of Anti-Semitism

The Google search engine has been involved in a bit of a controversy of late. It seems that when you use Google to search the Web for the word Jew, the first site that came up was a vile anti-Semitic outfit called Jew Watch. (Earlier this afternoon, Jew Watch had fallen to second, after the entry for Jew in the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, but as we write, the two pages have switched places again. We're not providing a link to the offending site, because doing so would actually increase the likelihood of Jew Watch regaining the top spot.)

As the New York Times notes, "a Web site calling itself "Remove JewWatch.com from the Google search engine!" is circulating a petition asking Google to remove the site from its listings." No dice, says Google; "it trusts its automated program to rank Web sites accurately."

We hadn't written about this up until now, because although we sympathized with the RemoveJewWatch folks, we found Google's defense plausible. Until, that is, we learned this from the New York Times:

Until February 2003, a user searching for a guide to the English city of Chester would have been presented with "Chester's guide to molesting young girls" as the second entry. After officials from Chester complained, Google removed the site.

There does seem to be something amiss with Google's priorities when the complaints of Jews objecting to anti-Semitism carry less weight than those of "officials from Chester." >>

As an Israeli you should realize that all Radical Muslims are prepared to consider Israel's withdrawl from the Gaza and West Bank a victory. This will only encourage further terrorist attacks. As for the U.K. peacekeeper or any peacekeepers all they will do is prevent Israel from retaliating against terrorists. This plan is suicide because we cannot have peace with the Muslim world that wants to see all Jews eradicated.

<< As another Israeli I would like to tell you that I have given up caring what Radical Muslims think.

I just want to live a normal life in a normal country. Since they didn't want to make peace with us we have to make peace without them. >>

Or better yet, if they do not cease and decist their psychopathologically-hesperophobic ways -- make peaces of them!

Shalom! Shalom! -- Brian

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