~Spirit of Dragons~
Divash
Let me explain something about Google and other search engines:
They don't decide which links pop up at all, nor in what order the links are listed.
The way to get listed on Google is to use a lot of words on your website that will cause an
automated search engine to say, "Aha, this is relevant. Let's pull that up for the person doing the search."
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Don't bother getting offended at a machine that can't tell the difference. It's just doing its job.
Yeah, but the thing is that the people who program it could have told it not to bring up Hitler when one searched "Star of David". Besides, "Hitler" and "Star of David" aren't relevant.
Not really. It isn't possible to program the Google search engine to read your mind. If you do a net search for the word 'Jew' or 'Jewish', you might be a Jew looking to learn more about Judaism or Jewish people. You also might be an anti-Semite who is wanting to find a site at which you can bash Jews.
Let's turn it backward and play pretend for a while. Let's say you are a Jew, you love being a Jew, you go to synagogue weekly (or daily), you go to a Jewish school, and you are asked to write a report on the Holocaust. So, being the smart person that you are, you do a net search for the word Hitler.
OR... pretend you are a person who hates or dislikes Jews. You think Hitler was pretty smart. You're going to a school set up by people who agree with you, basically a school which teaches the students all about why Jews are evil or wrong or disgusting in some way. Your teacher asks you to write a report about Hitler, so you go to Google and do a search for Hitler.
Both of you are going to be disappointed. The Jew will be disappointed that there are so many sites out there that support Hitler. The little neo-Nazi is going to be equally disappointed that there are so many websites that are so anti-Hitler.
Google can't tell the difference. It doesn't know whether you're looking for someone to love and admire, or someone to vilify (look it up). It can't possibly tell the difference; it has no idea who's sitting at the keyboard. So it just brings up the websites that mention the word "Jew" the most often, or the word "Hitler" the most often, or whatever other word you type in.
Think about it. Half the websites you will find when you do a Google search for "skinny" will be about diets. The other half will be about people who think that Callista Flockheart needs to gain weight.
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