Oh, the conspiracy theorists will have a field day. The director of Google's Haifa research center says, in an interview with Globes, a local business newspaper: "The thing is that essentially, Google is built on a certain degree of Israeli character that is very un-American." To be sure, the R&D boss, Yoelle Maarek, refers, at least ostensibly, to the Mountain View search engine's risk-taking culture, which is, presumably, akin to the boldness of an Israeli tank commander. But, for the more paranoid anti-semites, the quote will just confirm their worst fear: that the future has arrived, and the Jews got there first. It was bad enough that the leading PC maker, enterprise software company and operating system are all run by tech moguls (Michael Dell, Larry Ellison and Steve Ballmer) of Jewish origin. Now the cabal even organizes the information itself. Do no evil? That's what they would say.

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