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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/953243.html
Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village
By The Associated Press
Tags: Kiryat Yam, Google, slander
The northern town of Kiryat Yam is suing Internet giant Google for slander, a local official said Monday, because a feature of its worldwide map service shows the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village.
The dispute brings together two controversies, one old and one new. Officials from the town deny they displaced Arabs during the War of Independence, and Google is defending the practice of allowing any surfer to change information in its files.
Kiryat Yam is a town of 40,000 on the Mediterranean coast just north of the port of Haifa. An entry on Google Earth, a feature that allows users to zero in on locations around the world, alleges that the town was built on the ruins of Ghawarina, an Arab village.
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Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled or were expelled during the 1948-49 war. Pushing back invading Arab armies, the forces from the new Jewish state also overran Arab villages, destroying dozens.
Kiryat Yam was pulled into the dispute when a Google Earth user, Thameen Darby, inserted a note on the map saying it was built on the location of Ghawarina. Darby has inserted at least 10 such notes over Google's map of Israel.
"Kiryat Yam filed a slander complaint with Israel's police," said town official Naty Keyzilberman. "This obviously cannot be true, because Kiryat Yam was founded in 1945, he said, explaining the police complaint."
Darby, 30, a Palestinian doctor raised in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said his mother was a refugee from to the village Balad al-Sheikh near Kiryat Yam. He said his contributions to Google Earth are part of the Nakhba - Palestinian Catastrophe information hub aimed to help displaced Palestinians understand their heritage or find the villages of their parents or grandparents.
"As far as I can know, the Arab Ghawarina locality was in the place depicted," Darby told The Associated Press. He noted that he may have not marked the exact location and "if proven wrong by reliable sources, I will be quick to reallocate it."
Darby's Web site pinpoints Ghawarina on the site of Kiryat Yam, but another places it south of Haifa at the site of a present-day Arab town, Jisr el-Zarka.
Above Kiryat Yam, Darby wrote, this is one of the Palestinian localities
evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Asked to respond to the police complaint, a Google spokesman said Google Earth depends on user-generated content that reflects what people contribute, not what Google believes is accurate. The spokesman would not give his name, in keeping with company policy.
The spokesman insisted that the altered map is not illegal, and Google's
policy is not to remove such postings
Does moslem google also own youtube
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Google is anti-Jewish. Until recently, if you ran a search for the word 'Jew' in google, the first search result was the antisemitic website called 'JewWatch'. This was no accident.
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Google is anti-Jewish. Until recently, if you ran a search for the word 'Jew' in google, the first search result was the antisemitic website called 'JewWatch'. This was no accident.
do they own youtube?
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Google is anti-Jewish. Until recently, if you ran a search for the word 'Jew' in google, the first search result was the antisemitic website called 'JewWatch'. This was no accident.
do they own youtube?
Yes they do.
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Google is anti-Jewish. Until recently, if you ran a search for the word 'Jew' in google, the first search result was the antisemitic website called 'JewWatch'. This was no accident.
do they own youtube?
Yes they do.
i figured
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Actually any user can add notes on google earth, I have added notes before and they don't necessarily have to be true.
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Actually any user can add notes on google earth, I have added notes before and they don't necessarily have to be true.
Didn't know that, I don't use google earth anyway.
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Google is anti-Jewish. Until recently, if you ran a search for the word 'Jew' in google, the first search result was the antisemitic website called 'JewWatch'. This was no accident.
yea i remember that, isnt Jew Watch a Frank Weltner group?
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Yes it is.
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Google should all ROT IN HELL!
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Google should all ROT IN HELL!
Yes it is quite anti-jewish
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I think one of the founders of Google is supposed to be a self-hating Jew.
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Yes it is.
naturally, he has to have many different organizations so that they aren't all destroyed
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lol, google is not "antijewish" or projewish. Google is run by mathematical calculations.
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EagleEye: "...lol, google is not "antijewish" or projewish. Google is run by mathematical calculations..."
In that case the problem lies with whoever is doing the math.
With all due respect, EagleEye, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and most all of the Silicon Valley "high tech success stories" repeatedly display their decidedly "anti-Jew / anti-Israel / pro- NWO" mindset.
It is no accident that whenever one "googles" a neutral word such as "gun", the first page presented will be mostly, if not all, websites dedicated to nullifying the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.
Google "Jew", and one will be presented with a barrage of pages ranging from "JewWatch" to "Peace Now".
I for one "don't buy" the argument that Google simply offers what the public most often requests, based on mathematical algorithms which Google can't explain because we're incapable of understanding high-tech wizardry.
These are the same traitorous liars who have collaborated with Communist Red China to suppress the freedoms and rights of the Chinese people.
Many people are quite fond of responding to allegations about Google by repeating the mantra "That's not possible, because one of the founders is a Jew".
In that case, all I have to say, is that one of the founders of Google...the Jewish one...is guilty of treason against his own country and against his own people.
You see, EagleEye, I don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origins, or creed.
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The people at google do not determine where the things end up in their search engine. It is a "free market" search engine that ranks websites solely based on unbiased critieria. Nobody conspired to place antisemitic websites there. If they got to the top, it was for mathematical reasons, not for ideological reasons.
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I had planned to invest in Google while they were growing but I don't think google is specifically anti-semitic, liberal definitely, but not necessarily anti-semitic.
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I think one of the founders of Google is supposed to be a self-hating Jew.
Actually, both founders are self-hating Jews! One of them is from the former Soviet Union, he should be thanking the JDL for getting him out!