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April 04, 2004

We are all Jooglers now

Norm of normblog is calling for a "Googlebombing" in response to this Jerusalem Post article:

What is a Jew? Those hoping to find out from a Google search are in for an unpleasant surprise. The first of 1.75 million entries that appear when you type "Jew" into the search engine is an anti-Semitic site. This discovery by a New York real-estate developer, among others, has sparked a cyberspace showdown, and a bid to alter the situation by a small band of Internet experts.

What you do to change that is flood the internet -- via your blog -- with references and links to this WikipediA encyclopedic entry for the word "Jew." Michele at A Small Victory calls it "Joogling." Let's try it:

Irving Berlin was a Jew who gave us "God Bless America" during the gathering storm of WW II on the eve of Armistice Day 1938. Jay Maeder in the New York Daily News sets the scene:

These were nervous days. Never even mind the dark headlines from the Unter den Linden and the Friedrichstrasse; only a week and a half ago the Martians had invaded New Jersey and frightened half the land out of its wits. It was on the radio. The whole family had sat around the big 11-tube Silvertone in the parlor and listened to it happen live. But tonight on that same radio, at 8 o’clock, Thursday the 10th of November, the night before Armistice Day, there would be a moment of welcome reassurance. Irving Berlin had written a brand-new, chest-thumpingly patriotic song. And Kate Smith, queen of the airwaves, was going to premiere it.

Today's Irving Berlin (who was a Jew) is Lee Greenwood, of course. We don't know whether Greenwood is a Jew or is not a Jew, but like Irving, he's "Proud to be an American."

Update via Blogdex: Definitive explanation of Google bombing at jewschool, apparently the original source of the Joogling Project.

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