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Google may end up in some hot water with members of the Jewish community. A search on the term "Jew", according to this article, returns the number one search result as a strongly anti-Jewish site. Even though the result may generate outcry, Google has no plans to to alter the results, said company spokesman David Krane.

Such a page might not pop up for Google searchers in European countries, where Holocaust denial is illegal. But Krane adamantly stated that Google has no plans to manually alter the results of their ranking system to knock Jew Watch from its top spot.

"No, we don't do that. Google merely reflects what is on the Web and does its best to algorithmically rank pages. Unless [a Web page] violates a country or local law, we don't make any tweaks," he said.

Krane added however he would let Google's engineers know about the situation and that they would try to tweak the algorithm, which "might" affect the results.

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