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Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Gmail Trouble

Google’s Gmail is facing an open letter from privacy organisations as well as a possible trademark violation.

Gmail Fixes

Google indeed changed their Gmail login and password reminder functionality after I blogged and emailed them about problems.

Petition to Remove JewWatch.com From Google

Website Remove Jew Watch shows a sadly absurd misunderstanding of how the Web works, and how Google ranks sites.
Remove Jew Watch asks people to sign a petition to remove the anti-semitic www.jewwatch.com from Google’s top position when entering “Jew” (as previously posted).

“Google is the # 1 search site and the fact that [the] first search result would yield an anti-semetic site is all too common in a growing era of increased Anti Semetism [sic]... In order for google to remove this [they] would need a petition of over 50,000 requests”
– Removejewwatch.com

Will someone tell the webmaster that petition signers should rather put up links containing the word “Jew” to pages they prefer to see ranked well? In the meantime, a lot of people like me just linked Jew to Wikipedia, and voila, it’s the new #1 in Google.

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