Google suggests Zyklon-B for Yiddish

[watchdog]

When searching Google using the word Yiddish, which means language of the Jews, Google recommends you also try Zyklon-B.



Zyklon-B is the gas the Germans used to exterminate the Jews in their death camps during World War II.



So just what is Google suggesting here? Isn't this really just hate speech of the worst kind? I'd love to hear your comments on the subject.

I hate speech.

[watchdog]

Originally Posted by Dad

I hate speech.

Cute, however this is not a laughing matter. What Google is doing is an outrage.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Dad

I hate speech.

What a kook.

[Master]

Zyklon B was used in Germany before and during the Second World War for disinfection and pest extermination in ships, buildings and machinery. In the Auschwitz concentration camp as well, it was used exclusively for sanitation and pest control until the summer of 1941. After the end of August 1941, Zyklon was used in the camp, first experimentally and then routinely, as an agent of mass annihilation. Zyklon B consisted of diatomite, in the form of granules the size of fine peas, saturated with prussic acid. In view of its volatility and the associated risk of accidental poisoning, it was supplied to the camp in sealed metal canisters.

The Zyklon used at Auschwitz concentration camp was produced by a firm called Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH), with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and forming a part of IG Farbenindustrie.

[Amber]

Wow, that's kinda sad.

[Baby]

Originally Posted by Amber

Wow, that's kinda sad.

I noticed yesterday that Google did nothing to note the thousands who died at the hands of terrorism on 9/11. Apparantly the Google owners would rather remember the killers and haters than remember the heroes that make this country so great. Sad indeed.

---From InformationWeek | Business Technology News, Reviews and Blogs:

Google Thinks 9/11 Is Just Another Day

Google runs special versions of its home page to mark everything from the Persian new year to the birthday of Diego Velazquez (who?). So what's on the search giant's Web site today--the seventh anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and UA Flight 93? As of Noon Eastern, nothing.

To their credit, both MSN.com and Yahoo are running 9/11 features front and center on their home pages, as is InformationWeek.com. Google? Zip. Nada. (The automated Google News service doesn't count.)

The murder of 3,000 individuals by Islamic fanatics on September 11, 2001 is, to Google, apparently less important than the first hot air balloon flight, which the company commemorated on June 4 with a stylized logo in which a balloon replaces one of the O's.

And 9/11, according to Google's worldview, is also less significant than Communist Russia's Sputnik launch, Marc Chaggall's birthday, and the idiotic "Earth Day". Google marked all of those events with special logos. It did the same for the 50th anniversary of LEGO.

But the fact that more than 300 New York City firefighters and countless others died heroically on 9/11? In the minds of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that's less important than the birthday of someone named Walter Gropius (celebrated on Google's home page on May 18th).

So what's going on? Is this a simple omission on Google's part? Not likely. I've been covering big business long enough to know that, in the words of a former NYU prof of mine, the late, great Ed Diamond,"no sparrow falls by accident."

Here's my speculation: The Google camp is a big Barack Obama supporter. According to Wired, Google employee contributions to Obama's campaign outpaced their contributions to John McCain by about 45 to 1 as of February. Reminding folks that the world is still full of nutcases (masquerading as political combatants) who want to destroy America, well, that's just not convenient when your candidate of choice has no foreign policy experience and less executive experience than even, say, the former mayor of a small town, is it?.

C'mon Google, the day is still young. It's not too late to honor the memory of 9/11 victims. Put something up on your homepage!