In the features section of the Jerusalem Post (
http://www.jpost.com),
there is a report about the efforts of a New York based activist who
is using Googlebombing (essentially, convincing others to set up links
in a particular manner) to change the search engine's top ranked answer
to the query term "Jew". Apparently, at the time the article was
written, it brings up a rather nasty anti-Semitic site, which this
individual is trying to replace with...a Wikipedia article (in terms
of the top ranking on Google).
Given the nature of the attention this could bring, I suspect
we should keep a particularly close eye on Judaism-related topics for
vandalism and partisan editing (of any kind) over the next few days.
If you want to read the article without registering at the Post,
do a search on
http://news.google.com for Wikipedia.
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Robert Merkel
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http://benambra.org
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He's the greatest guy in history,
From the...town of Springfield
He's about to
hit a chestnut tree.
--The Simpsons
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