How to bump Holocaust deniers off Google’s top spot? Pay Google
by Carole Cadwalladr from on (#25N9B)
Google 'is unhappy' with Holocaust denial beating the truth in its search results - but it probably makes more money that way
The Holocaust did not happen. At least not in the world of Google, it seems. One week ago, I typed "did the hol" into a Google search box and clicked on its autocomplete suggestion, "Did the Holocaust happen?" And there, at the top of the list, was a link to Stormfront, a neo-Nazi white supremacist website and an article entitled "Top 10 reasons why the Holocaust didn't happen".
On Monday, Google confirmed it would not remove the result: "We are saddened to see that hate organisations still exist. The fact that hate sites appear in search results does not mean that Google endorses these views."
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