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Google, the search engine giant, said that it had fixed the search results for "Jew" following an offensive definition of the term being displayed as the top result.
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Internet users who searched for "Jew" on Google began to see a string of offensive phrases in the search results.
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They appeared as the top result over the dictionary definition that described a person associated with religious and cultural Judaism.
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Before the fix, the leading search result for "Jew" was: "Bargain with someone who is miserly or petty."
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The Oxford Language was used as the source for the definition. It also characterized it as a verb.
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A small bolded banner with the words "offensive” in capital letters was included.
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The search engine presented the term in several "tenses," including "jewing" and "jewed."
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After several online users pointed out the gross error, Google updated the result at 1 p.m. ET.
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According to the source of the offensive definition, it was rooted in a 19th-century slur and "in response to old stereotypes associating Jewish people trading and moneylending."
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Google published a statement saying that the derogatory definition was removed from search engine results.
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This statement was made just before 1:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday after Amy Spitalnick, an outspoken advocate against antisemitism, flagged it.
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"Our apologies. Google licenses definitions from third-party dictionary experts," Spitalnick said.
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"Obscene definitions are only displayed by default if they represent the main meaning of a term.
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