![]() Just a few keystrokes away… on our laptops, our tablets, our phones. Though later, I think that perhaps what I’ve actually done is scraped the topsoil off the surface of 2016 and found one of the underground springs that has been quietly nurturing it. I feel like I’ve fallen down a wormhole, entered some parallel universe where black is white, and good is bad. ![]() It’s a link to a rather dense, scholarly book review from, a Jewish magazine, with the unfortunately misleading headline: “Why Literally Everybody In the World Hates Jews.” There’s one result in the 10 that offers a different point of view. The sixth is from Yahoo Answers: “Why are Jews so evil?” The seventh result is: “Jews are demonic souls from a different world.” And the 10th is from : “Judaism is Satanic!” The fifth is a YouTube video: “Why the Jews are Evil. And in this instance the third-best, most relevant result to the search query “are Jews… ” is a link to an article from, a neo-Nazi website. ![]() It strives to give you the best, most relevant results. Its mission as a company, the one-line overview that has informed the company since its foundation and is still the banner headline on its corporate website today, is to “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. The site handles at least 63,000 searches a second, 5.5bn a day. It’s what we all do, all the time, whenever we want to know anything. The top result, from a site called Listovative, has the headline: “Top 10 Major Reasons Why People Hate Jews.” I click on it: “Jews today have taken over marketing, militia, medicinal, technological, media, industrial, cinema challenges etc and continue to face the worlds envy through unexplained success stories given their inglorious past and vermin like repression all over Europe.” Because there, on my screen, was the proof: an entire page of results, nine out of 10 of which “confirm” this. And this was Google’s answer: Jews are evil. It offered me a choice of potential questions it thought I might want to ask: “are jews a race?”, “are jews white?”, “are jews christians?”, and finally, “are jews evil?”Īre Jews evil? It’s not a question I’ve ever thought of asking. Since 2008, Google has attempted to predict what question you might be asking and offers you a choice. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. H ere’s what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night.
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