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NO STORY has yet
attracted so much mail as the revelation that the Google
search engine is being nobbled. To protect our
correspondents from the nobblers, we have withheld their
identities (Monday, October 28, 2002)
Who has hijacked Google?
MORE
evidence that Google is actively promoting a partisan
viewpoint: in its "categorization"* Google puts the
revisionist sites, including yours, under "Society >
Issues > Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations >
Holocaust Denial". Revisionist sites are variously
described as "Web site of disgraced British Holocaust
denier", "world's leading Holocaust denial organisation",
"Holocaust denier's web site", "Web site of the American
denier", "Web site of German denier", "Holocaust denial
web site", and so on, ad nauseam.
For good neasure they even include under this same category of "Holocaust denial" Norman Finkelstein's site on "The Holocaust Industry". It seems that old Norman has also been promoted to "denier"...
* Search under your name and click the "category" line on the first result to see the various descriptions that Google searches will bring along. |
FOLLOWING your link to the BBC article regarding
Google.com's un-stated policy of censorship and to the
letter you
published from "C", I find this descriptor when I
searched for "Wiesenthal:"
"Description: A 400,000 member strong international center for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights,..."
WHO writes these blasted things? [see below]
I
AM PROBABLY not offering you anything you didn't know
already but the "Who's
behind Google" link in Google's corporate history
offers interesting insights. Call me paranoid, but that
list of managers, directors and advisers reads
suspiciously like a Tel Aviv phonebook.
IT is interesting to see how Google categorizes the
American terrorist organization JDL
[Jewish Defense League]:
"An Israeli-American group, presenting editorials on anti-semitism and against racially conscious Euro-Americans"
ALSO
- I don't know if you are aware, but the Cleveland
newspaper Free Times was mysteriously bought and
closed down in early October after publishing a series of
"Letters to the Editor" critical of Israeli world
politics - this happened with lightening speed and was
totally "out of the blue", as it were.
MANY of the annotations for websites in Google (writes
one of our correspondents) are actually gleaned from
the Open Directory
Project:
"The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others."
And, as you can see from their "About" page, just about anyone can become an editor for ODP:
"Signing up is easy: choose a topic you know something about and join. Editing categories is a snap. We have a comprehensive set of tools for adding, deleting, and updating links in seconds. For just a few minutes of your time you can help make the Web a better place, and be recognized as an expert on your chosen topic."
Seems to me that someone who doesn't like you very much has been allowed to write the annotation for the Focal Point website, as well as the other revisionist sites.
THE ANSWER to the question, "Who wrote those offensive
Open Directory Project annotations?" can be seen at the
bottom of this ODP page:
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Race-Ethnic-Religious_Relations/Holocaust_Denial/
"Category editors: mashimaro, jamiemccarthy"
Click on their names to see who they are. I believe you've already had the "pleasure" of dealing with Jamie McCarthy for many years. He wrote a "pamphlet" about you. The other chap, Anthony Long, recently wrote an article, "Forgetting the Führer: The Recent History of the Holocaust Denial Movement in Germany," in the Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 48 (2002): 72-84.
YES, McCarthy was once well known to Real
Historians; long funded by ADL front
organisations, he will have picked up more than
a few pieces of silver from the Traditional
Enemy for this latest smear effort. "Get a life,
Jamie," I once wrote him. Do something
useful. |
David
Irving comments:Who has hijacked Google? (continued)
Related items on this website:
Google has
fallen into enemy hands
Traditional
Enemy wants search-engine gag on "wrong" Internet
history sites
US
Online companies [Yahoo] removing "offensive"
and unpatriotic postings [about 9/11] from
Internet
"I
typed "Germany" into a search-engine and stumbled
across this site"
Holocaust
survivors sue Yahoo! over sale of Nazi items
Harvard
experts on Web censorship detect that Google engine,
bowing to German and French pressure, suppresses sites
(including ours) 
Lynda
Mortl has been investigating library censorship of
websites-
A postscript on Internet freedom, Sunday, March 7, 2004: Harvard researchers Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman have established that the California based search-engine google.com will find all 8,000 pages of this website, but that the German and French equivalents google.de and google.fr find none. The lesson for our friends in those two countries: always specify www.google.com -- you never know what you're missing.
Los Angeles Times
DAVID IRVING writes:
SO Google, which always prided
itself on being one of the few search engines which was
entirely objective and incorruptible -- it boasted that
it would not take bribes in any form to bring particular
sites like Nizkor to the top of a search list -- has
slithered into the greasy hands of the traditional
enemies. It will soon be time for us to start examining
the names and affiliations of those who manage and
control the Google empire. It used to be just two
computer propellor-heads, entirely incorruptible, based
so I was told in Stanford, California.
One wonders who can possibly have an
interest in dismissing me as a disgraced Holocaust
denier, when I have not written a single book or article
on that most dreary of all subjects. My website is
already rated in the world's top 40,000, and won an award
as one of the top fifty historical websites. I wonder who
I can possibly be upsetting with its content.
David Irving