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From: "Isabel Maxwell" ..t > To: a Cc: allEla Subject: RE: is this true??: "on Google, well known hate site on Jews (Jewwatch.com)is the first to come up when searching for the word Jew" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:02:07 +0000 Dear Larry and Sergey, First, Happy Easter, Chag Sameach, etc. ! and I do hope this email finds you both personally well. Many continued congratulations on your achievements with Google. I would not normally write to you on something like this, but it has just come to my attention and I have verified for myself that the below is true, and I very much would like to hear from you that you can do something about this now, before the 50k signatures have to be reached... This is serious... :-( I wonder if you are aware of this unfortunate inciting problem (see below) that comes up on Google??- How about a website instead that promotes tolerance and understanding of all religions and races. "Couldn't that be the first thing that comes up on this Google search instead"? (one of well-meaning suggested comments below) Of course, I do understand the principles of how your heuristics work to deliver up the urls in response to your audience's queries, but in cases of abject Anti-semitism, or plain illegal sites, I am sure the heuristics can be (and have been) 'over-ridden'.... I have just received this succinct email from my mother, Dr. Elisabeth Maxwell, aged 83 now, in London - it is self-explanatory and the reason I am writing to you now. I hope I can hear back from you soon, despite all the business pressures I can only imagine you must be under - Yours, Isabel Original Message From: Dr Maxwell (mailto• Sent: Sat 4/10/2004 7:09 AM To: Friends of Israel 4 Cc: Subject: Please sign the petition to help remove the Google well knownhate site on Jews, the first to come up when searching for the word Jew My dear family and friends, Although some of you may not have heard from me in a long time, I am still active in my specialised field of Christian Jewish dialogue and Remembering the Holocaust. I was shocked to receive the information below which I have verified myself. I have signed the petition and urge you to do the same as 50,000 names is a great many signatures to find. I have sent this to 75 people and if each of you do the same, then at least we will not be bystanders to some action we reprove, and we will have contributed to try and make Googles face its responsibility as a great, fair and clean search engine. Spreading racial hatred cannot be tolerated in any form and anti-semitism is one of the most virulent form with very well known consequences as the Holocaust has amply demonstrated! With very best regards and love to you all EFTA00579107 Elisabeth. Betty, maman, GranBetty Dr Elisabeth Maxwell 11 Lochmore House Cundy Street London SW1W 9.11( UK Tel: Fax: Forwarded Message From: "Weiman, Racelle" < > Dear Friends This comes to us from <mailto: > : When performing a search for the word "Jew" on google.. the first result is a site that has been notorious for being anti-Semitic... the site is called jewwatch.com Google is the if 1 search site and the fact that the first search result would yield an anti-Semitic site is all too common in a growing era of increased Anti Semitism... In order for google to remove this they would need a petition of over 50,000 requests.... I have setup a polling site , please scroll down to the bottom to leave your 'signature' ... Thanks.. please click on www.removejewwatch.com <http://www.removejewwatch.com/> Please forward this to people Friends, If you would also like to send a comment to Google, like the person below, in addition to signing this very important petition, you can do so at: <mailto: It seems very inappropriate that your search engine would offer Jewwatch.com, an anti-Semitic site, to whoever is looking for information on Jews. In the past anti-Semitism led to the Holocaust in Europe while the rest of the world kept silent. Today's anti-Semitism leads to the bombing of Jewish schools and synagogues, and to terror attacks in Israel. I don't think google should be part of the inciting voices against Jews, not even for the sake of free speech. After all hate speech is not free speech. here also are some more comments from signature pages i (isabel maxwell) read: Name Comments Name 3797. Gary Blume I researched this site my self and found quite a number of stated "facts" that were incorrect and falsified, and it appears that the intention of such "facts" was to create hatried toward a group of people. Remove this site! Gary Blume 3796. Charles Schwartz Please remove this, in addition to any other such sites. C. Schwartz 3795. Patricia How about a website that promotes tolerance and understanding of all EFTA00579108 religions and races. Couldn't that be the first thing that comes up on Google? 3794. Guy Vadish EFTA00579109