Google has a new feature – “Something different” – that, according to their description<\/a> returns “queries that may be in the same category as your original search”.<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday I entered a colleague’s name – “goldstein” – in to google, and got the following:<\/p>\n

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Hmm. So I tried another search, this time for “Friedman”:<\/p>\n

<\/a>So I tried another, “Greenbaum”:<\/p>\n

<\/a>Then I tried a fairly obscure one “Freudenthal”:<\/p>\n

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And finally I tried “Brin”:<\/p>\n

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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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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