bombs away

Via Crooked Timber and a few Livejournals, I came across a particularly disturbing piece of news with regards to some Google searching.

See, if you go to Google and search for the word Jew, the first hit on the list is a hate site called "Jew Watch," which you can quite easily find but I shan't dignify with a link here. I'm kind of curious as to how such a site got to the top of Google's search listing; I know it's not their fault, but more the fault of however many thousands of bigoted fuckwits decided that Jew Watch was a great site to refer people curious about what the word "Jew" means to.

Now, given Google's methodology, there's a way you can do something about this. Many of you are familiar with the idea of Google Bombing, which I rarely of course advocate, but here I am asking you to do it for a good end - knocking that hate site off the top of the listings. It's pretty simple, really. I'm asking you guys to take the word Jew, and link it to something that isn't Jew Watch. The Wikipedia article on the Jews seems to be the accepted destination for now, and has actually jumped from #4 or #5 on the list to #2, right below the other site, since I started this article.

So come on, folks. Get your linking on!