Google has a new feature – “Something different” – that, according to their description returns “queries that may be in the same category as your original search”.
Well, yesterday I entered a colleague’s name – “goldstein” – in to google, and got the following:
Hmm. So I tried another search, this time for “Friedman”:
So I tried another, “Greenbaum”:
Then I tried a fairly obscure one “Freudenthal”:
And finally I tried “Brin”:
So what’s going on? I find it hard to believe the structure of the internet really clusters Jewish names together, but maybe it does (an Israeli phonebook?). Or has someone at google compiled a list of Jewish names, and, if so, why?
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