Google has been condemned by a US anti-Semitism watchdog for bringing users to a dictionary entry describing ‘Jew’ as a verb meaning “to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.”
Users searching for the word on Tuesday were shown the offensive dictionary entry, with the more traditional entry for the word – a noun describing “a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham” – shown further down.
A note above the definition highlighted the fact that it was considered “offensive.”
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