Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

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"Jewish activists are trying to unseat an anti-Semitic site that has taken top placement on Google during the eight days of Passover. Type 'Jew' into the search engine, and the first result is 'Jew Watch,' a newsletter that promotes conspiracy theories and Holocaust deniers... After Google refused to remove the listing, Daniel Sieradski, who runs a blog called Jewschool, started a campaign to replace the top entry with an encyclopedia entry defining 'Jew.' ... Jewish activists are trying to unseat an anti-Semitic site that has taken top placement on Google during the eight days of Passover. '... The company said it wasn't going to excise sites based on their content... So instead, Sieradski is encouraging blogs and other sites to link [the word Jew] to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.... Since the campaign started, his chosen site has jumped to the second spot on Google's ranking. He was confident Jew Watch will drop in the rankings. "There's tons of anti-Semitic [junk] on the Internet," Sieradski said. They're ranked so high, 'because they all link to each other and need to support each others' delusions.'"
-- Stephen Lynch, Group says Google's not Kosher. New York Post, today.