Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Google launches Palestine-specific web domain

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Google unveiled its newest URL on Thursday, www.google.ps, a specific domain for residents of the occupied Palestinian territories, with the exception of East Jerusalem, (what role did Israsel play in that)?

"The new domain will give Arabic-speaking users in the Palestinian Territories, who use Palestinian ISPs, access to Google in Arabic and eventually, access to more locally relevant content," the company said on its Arabia blog.

Aside from East Jerusalem, which falls under de facto Israeli authority, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have generally relied on www.google.jo, Jordan's domain, and Egypt's www.google.com.eg, respectively.

"Arabic-speaking users in the Palestinian Territories have had to visit foreign domains in order to search in Arabic," the company added, noting that the new URL would be designed for Palestine-specific search results.

Google said that starting Thursday, new searches would automatically redirect to the .ps domain, at which the user can select Arabic or English, but that "any user can type in any Google domain they prefer to go."

"With the launch of google.ps, we bring the total number of Google domains worldwide to more than 160," the blog post added, on the same day Google said it would launch more domains in Africa, as well.
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Google censors Norman Finkelstein?

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Aliakbar Nayyeri

Judge for yourself:

2 days ago I accidentally discovered that Norman Finkelstin's website (http://www.normanfinkelstein.com) is no longer indexed by the google. So google won't include its pages in its search results. If you specify "normanfinkelstein.com" as the search domain in the "advanced search" featur of google, you get no results at all, even if the searched combination is "Norman Finkelstein"!
It should be noted that Yahoo! still finds results from Norman's website.
take a look at these:
In 2007 Norman, along with Noam Chomsky, had a similar experience with the websense:
in the last link see the last paragraph of the Controversy section.
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Action Alert For Palestinian Refugees involving UNHCR And Google Earth

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http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives
/2008/04/10/
lost-palestinian-refugee-camps-
on-un-google-earth-map/


Story related to petition
Above link!

To: UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR)

Dear UNHCR,

We are pleased to know
that UNHCR launched its '
Google Earth Refugee World' layer to take Google
Earth users on a virtual reality tour with the UN
refugee agency of some of the world's major
displacement crises and the humanitarian
efforts aimed at helping the victims.
Reference
http://www.unhcr.org/events/47f48dc92.html

However, we are disappointed to see that Palestinian
refugee camps in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
were not shown anywhere.
Reference - 'Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on
UN-Google Earth Map': http://tinyurl.com/4jnpoy

We are sure that this is an oversight on UNHCR's part,
but 27 Palestinian refugee camps that exist in the Occupied
Territories are not shown on your new Google Earth Refugee
World layer. Over one million people live in these camps.
Do you not believe that they are living under most inhumane
conditions and should be mentioned on UNHCR's 'Google
Earth Refugee World' like all other refugees?

Please correct your listings to include these camps.
They DO EXIST and they MUST be known about.

Sincerely,

For Petition see here

To Sign Petition see here

Too See who has Signed Petition see here
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Free Stuff For The Day Feb 14- 2008

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"Check Back Daily
For Free Stuff"

Let's Try This Again....

4 Free E Books
Please post a comment if links
are broken or download is
unsuccessful...
Thanks!

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Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village

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"Hell Most
of what is
called Israel
Was created on
Palestinian Land
was made
from
ruins of
Arab villages
Israel destroyed"


The northern
town of Kiryat Yam is suing Internet giant Google
for slander, a local official said Monday, because
a feature of its worldwide map service shows the
town was built on the ruins of an Arab village.

The dispute brings together two controversies,
one old and one new. Officials from the town
deny they displaced Arabs during the War of
Independence, and Google is defending the
practice of allowing any surfer to change
information in its files.

Kiryat Yam is a town of 40,000 on the Mediterranean
coast just north of the port of Haifa. An entry on
Google Earth, a feature that allows users to zero
in on locations around the world, alleges that
the town was built on the ruins of Ghawarina,
an Arab village.

Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled or
were expelled during the 1948-49 war.
Pushing back invading Arab armies, the forces
from the new Jewish state also overran Arab
villages, destroying dozens.

Kiryat Yam was pulled into the dispute when
a Google Earth user, Thameen Darby, inserted
a note on the map saying it was built on the
location of Ghawarina. Darby has inserted at
least 10 such notes over Google's map of Israel.

"Kiryat Yam filed a slander complaint with
Israel's police," said town official
Naty Keyzilberman. "This obviously cannot
be true, because Kiryat Yam was founded in
1945, he said, explaining the police complaint."

Darby, 30, a Palestinian doctor raised in the
northern West Bank town of Jenin, said his
mother was a refugee from to the village
Balad al-Sheikh near Kiryat Yam. He said
his contributions to Google Earth are part
of the Nakhba - Palestinian Catastrophe
information hub aimed to help displaced
Palestinians understand their heritage or
find the villages of their parents or grandparents.

"As far as I can know, the Arab Ghawarina
locality was in the place depicted," Darby
told The Associated Press. He noted that he
may have not marked the exact location and
"if proven wrong by reliable sources, I will be
quick to reallocate it."

Darby's Web site pinpoints Ghawarina on
the site of Kiryat Yam, but another places
it south of Haifa at the site of a present-day
Arab town, Jisr el-Zarka.

Above Kiryat Yam, Darby wrote, this is one
of the Palestinian localities
evacuated and destroyed after the 1948
Arab-Israeli war.

Asked to respond to the police complaint, a
Google spokesman said Google Earth depends
on user-generated content that reflects what
people contribute, not what Google believes is
accurate. The spokesman would not give his
name, in keeping with company policy.

The spokesman insisted that the altered map
is not illegal, and Google's
policy is not to remove such postings.

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