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Google excludes controversial sites

Title: Google excludes controversial sites
Date: Thursday, 24 October 2002
Publisher: ZDNet
Author: Declan McCullagh
Main source: news.zdnet.co.uk

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Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a new report from Harvard University's Berkman Center. Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion. Google confirmed on Wednesday that the sites had been removed from listings available at Google.fr and Google.de. The ... [Read the rest at news.zdnet.co.uk]