64 PayPal, Google, Facebook, Wiki, Yahoo!, MySpace, eBay - all Jewish?

Some of Google's Porn is at
http://www.google.com/Top/Adult/Image_Galleries/
http://www.google.com/Top/Adult/Society/

Google's webpage http://www.google.com/Top/Adult/Society/Advice/
features these topics:

Anal (10) Coitus (9) Courtship and Mating Rituals (6) Forums and Columns (3) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (2) Health (21) Marital Aids and Sex Toys (21) Masturbation (8) Oral Sex (23) Organizations (2) Phone Sex (2) Sex Workers (3) Special Interests (3)

I considered changing Search Engines. Most of them either have more Porn than Google, or are not very good Search Engines. One I'm trialing is http://www.cuil.com/. But basically I'm still stuck with Google.

(1) Google's Jewish founders - featured in B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2006
(2) PayPal, Google, Facebook, Wiki, Yahoo!, MySpace, eBay - all Jewish?

(1) Google's Jewish founders - featured in B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2006

http://web.archive.org/web/20060427010955/bnaibrith.org/pubs/bnaibrith/bbm_index.cfm

Fire up your laptop, fasten your seatbelt, and prepare to enter the Jewscape, one of countless new outposts on the point-and-click frontier.  Translation: Welcome to our hi-tech issue, which explores the many ways in which the Internet is refashioning the Jewish world.

THE SEARCHMEISTERS April 2006

The story of how two monumentally ambitious and chutzpadik young Jews defied conventional wisdom and revolutionized the way we find and use information. Meet the Google Guys, a pair of techno-geeks whose oddly named brainchild is now so successful that it comfortably occupies that contemporary pinnacle of prestige. Yes, it has become a verb. But the Googlers have made it clear they aren't done climbing.

Story by Mark Malseed. Illustrations by Menachem Wecker and design by Mark Wright.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070213093617/http://bnaibrith.org/pubs/bnaibrith/spring2006bbm/searchmeisters.cfm

B'nai B'rith Magazine

Spring 2006

The Searchmeisters

Not long ago, two young iconoclasts created a company with a memorably goofy name. Nobody's laughing anymore. If you don't believe that, you can google it.

By Mark Malseed

It wasn't supposed to work out like this.

Sergey Brin, a math and computer whiz from an academically-oriented family of Russian Jews, had always figured he would earn a Ph.D. and become a professor, as his father and grandfather had.

And Larry Page, the youngest son of a pioneering computer scientist, and a standout engineering student himself, also had every intention of following his father's footsteps into academia.

By all logic, the two should now be young college professors, doing research, teaching freshmen, fighting for tenure. Instead, they sit atop the fastest-growing company in American history, fly around the world in their very own 767, and wonder what they're going to do next year when they both turn 34.

How did Brin and Page rise from modest beginnings to become two of the richest and most influential business tycoons on the planet? The answer has as much to do with their personalities and family backgrounds as it does with the groundbreaking Internet search technology they developed as Stanford doctoral students.

As the founders and visionary leaders of a seven-year-old company called Google, Brin and Page have revolutionized the way we seek and find information about nearly everything. They have made "search" - once an arcane and tedious chore best left to geeks - into a daily staple for kids and grandparents alike, and spawned a catchy new verb to describe it too. Along the way, they built a booming, $130-billion enterprise with global reach that has executives from Madison Ave. to Silicon Valley walking around with their heads on a swivel. Wired magazine calls the phenomenon "Googlephobia."

Operating with "a healthy disregard for the impossible," as Page likes to say, the Google Guys think big and move fast. Paying no mind to precedent, they aggressively seek to fix what they see as inefficient or unfair, be it a technology, the workplace culture, government regulations, or the ways of Wall Street. New products are pushed out the door at a blistering pace, often even before they are perfected-Page's way of keeping innovation humming and competitors on their toes.

Though they might avoid using the word themselves, Brin and Page have no shortage of chutzpah. It has propelled them forward at key moments, as when Page told his Stanford professors that he was going to download the entire Internet onto his personal computer. (They thought he was crazy, but he eventually did it.) Or when the pair, desperate for money to grow the business, nevertheless told would-be investors that any deal would have to be done strictly on Google's terms. (The potential backers eventually agreed.)

"If Larry and Sergey were given clear instructions by a divine presence, they would still have questions," says Michael Moritz, one of the two venture capitalists who in 1999 invested a combined $25 million in Google.

To some, the Guys came off as both arrogant and naive, earning them a reputation for being difficult to deal with. But in the mouse-eat-mouse world of Silicon Valley start-ups, their insistence on doing it their way also helped set them apart.

"They had a great sense of purpose, which is a prerequisite for anyone who is nutty enough to want to start a company," says Moritz. "That burning sense of conviction is what you need to overcome the inevitable obstacles."

One such hurdle was meager operating revenue. Google cleared that obstacle in 2001 when it started displaying small text ads alongside search results - a smart, subdued approach to advertising that soon transformed the search engine into a money machine. Within three years, the company was drawing revenues of $10 million a day, one click at a time. Yet the founders' mission is much broader and bolder than mere searching: They want to organize all of the world's information and make it universally accessible, whatever the consequences. This includes scanning millions of books without the explicit permission of publishers, compiling a database of genetic and biological information, and tracing and indefinitely storing the searches and e-mails of individual computer users - actions that put Brin and Page on a collision course with copyright lawyers, governments, and cherished notions of personal privacy. As these projects unfold, Washington (and we the public) will be watching closely.

None of this appears to ruffle the Guys. They have more than 5,000 employees, tons of cash, a massive computer infrastructure that gives them a formidable edge on most competitors, and a gilded brand name in Google (which actually is a misspelling of googol, an enormously large number). With more than a billion dollars a year in profits, and a stock market value greater than that of General Motors, Ford, Disney, and Time Warner combined, Google is in many ways setting the technology agenda for the world.

THE SEARCH FOR A BETTER LIFE

Ironically, the Google story might never have materialized if not for the antisemitism in Soviet Russia that drove Sergey's father, Michael Brin, to flee with his family in search of a better life.

As a teen growing up in suburban Washington, D.C., Sergey had the same opportunities as any of his neighbors. He attended public high school; then the University of Maryland, a nearby state school with affordable tuition; and then won a merit-based scholarship to fund his graduate studies at Stanford.

Sergey's father, on the other hand, had faced formidable barriers simply for being Jewish. Michael Brin's dream of becoming an astronomer was thwarted even before he reached college, a casualty of the virulent antisemitism in the Moscow State University physics department, which refused to admit anyone of Jewish ancestry. (Soviet leaders thought Jews weren't to be trusted with nuclear rocket research.)

Instead, Michael opted for studies in mathematics, a field where some Jewish students had been able to circumvent discrimination. He landed a job as an economist for the state planning agency, earned a Ph.D. in math (despite a virtual ban on Jews attending graduate school), and even got a 100-ruble raise.

"I thought I was rich," Brin recalls. "Life was beautiful."

But one day in 1977, Brin suddenly declared to his mother, wife, and young son, "We cannot stay here anymore. We have to leave." He had just returned from an international math conference, where American and European colleagues he was meeting for the first time had opened his eyes to the many opportunities outside the Iron Curtain.

The announcement was a shock to his family. Despite the routine constraints of life under communism, not to mention occasional instances of antisemitism, the Brins had carved out a comfortable existence in Moscow. The decision to apply for an exit visa meant immediate uncertainty and hardship. Michael was promptly fired from his government job. His wife, Eugenia, lost her job as well but accepted her husband's decision to leave Russia, primarily because in the long run it would be best for their son.

Michael, who had several professional contacts in the U.S., secured a position teaching math at the University of Maryland, and in October 1979, the Brins arrived in Prince George's County, Md., not far from the nation's capital.

JEWISH GENES

Like many of their fellow Russian émigrés, Sergey's parents had been totally assimilated into Russian culture and were not religiously observant. "We felt our Jewishness in different ways, not by keeping kosher, or going to synagogue," Michael Brin explains. "It is genetic." The prejudice he and his wife had endured cemented their identity as Jews, but for Sergey, who was just 6 when the family moved, the discrimination barely registered.

Sergey briefly attended Hebrew school, but he was "extremely bored," his mother recalls, and was never bar mitzvahed. He did visit Israel with his parents when he was 11, his first major trip overseas, and the sights and sounds of his ancestral homeland, including a several-day visit to a kibbutz, seemed to have had a lasting impact. So did Brin family Passover celebrations. Sergey carried this tradition with him to California, where Google now hosts an annual Passover seder for Jewish employees.

By contrast, Larry Page, whose mother Gloria is Jewish, grew up without much attachment to Jewish religion or culture. Raised more in the mold of his father, Carl Victor Page, whose religion was technology, Larry clearly has computing in his genes. His mother taught computer programming at Michigan State, and his older brother, Carl Jr., is a successful Internet entrepreneur.

Larry's maternal grandfather, however, followed a much different path. He was an early settler in Israel, making aliyah in the spartan desert town of Arad. Aspects of his pioneering spirit - as well as the staunch progressive ideals of Larry's father - have been passed down to Larry, who actively supports causes ranging from space exploration to fighting poverty in Africa.

For Sergey Brin, although Jewishness may be hard-wired into his genetic code, it is not something that he flaunts. To do otherwise might not be prudent from a business standpoint. As heads of a global corporation that is active in more than 100 countries, Brin and Page are probably well-served by not attaching themselves too closely to any one religious, ethnic, or national identity - or for that matter, to anything else that might detract from their appearing as fair, neutral, and trustworthy as their vaunted search engine.

ALL GOOGLE ALL THE TIME

Inside the Googleplex, the company's campus - like Silicon Valley headquarters, the focus is squarely on innovation. Employees, who are known as Googlers, typically work in small teams of three to five, and are given one day a week to pursue their own pet projects. Perks include three free meals a day, access to workout facilities (as well as volleyball and roller hockey games), onsite medical and dental care, laundry machines, car washes, massages, and day care. The sumptuous fringe-benefit package is intended not only to keep the Googlers happy, but to encourage them to stay at their desks longer.

The Googleplex, meanwhile, has become a magnet for world-class brains, as company officials recruit talent from top universities as well as aggressively poach it from the halls of Microsoft and other competitors.

Brin, the more extroverted of the duo, has proven to be an astute dealmaker, playing key roles in cutting deals with AOL and other partners. Meanwhile, Page, who is more analytical, focuses on cutting costs and streamlining Google's operations. Inseparable since their Stanford days, the two multi-billionaires still choose to share a modest office, but one topped by an Astroturf-covered, open-air perch that is fitted with an electric massage chair, where the Guys can keep watch over their realm.

THE "DON'T-BE-EVIL" EMPIRE

From the beginning, Brin and Page have carefully cultivated an image of themselves as exceedingly moral and ethical operators - and reality seems to back them up. For them, they contend, it was never solely about money and profits. They intended to run the business their way, which meant not selling out to greedy venture capitalists looking to turn a quick profit. It also meant not selling coveted spots near the top of their search results, a dubious method used by certain other websites for raking in cash. Google's ranking of search results is fully automated, based solely on mathematical formulas that identify web pages that are linked to more often than others.

Given their professed commitment to fairness and good business ethics, Brin and Page have even adopted an unofficial motto for their company: "Don't Be Evil." What is evil? Advertising for guns or hard liquor, for instance, which the company forbids. However, beer and wine ads are allowed, as are ads for pornography, leading some to criticize the definition as arbitrary.

Still, not being evil is easy when business is robust. But will the Guys be able to uphold their high principles if Google's stock price or profit margins begin to fall? As it is, the company is growing so quickly and its reach is so broad-the ever-diversifying Google empire now has a foothold in technology, publishing, entertainment, advertising, real estate, science, energy, retail, and telecom, among other fields-that conflicts are inevitable, and hubris is a real danger. Indeed, the biggest thing Google has to fear may be itself.

Perhaps we should be more fearful of Google, too. After all, it records every search and e-mail sent through its popular website, tracing them back to individual computers and storing them indefinitely in massive data banks. The company says this treasure trove of information helps create better products, and, anyhow, it doesn't peek at personal records. But others might like to - including divorce lawyers or the federal government, which recently subpoenaed Google search records in a controversial bid to protect children from pornographic material.

COMING FULL CIRCLE

And this may be only the beginning of what Brin and Page have in store. They are collaborating with scientist Craig Venter on assembling a searchable database of genetic information to aid in medical treatments and disease prevention-what Venter calls "the ultimate intersection of technology and health."

"[This] is something that should be broadly available through a service like Google within a decade," says Venter. When that day comes, Page and Brin will no doubt be first in line to google their own genes.

Sergey Brin's odyssey from old-world oppression to second-generation global success came full circle in September 2003 at an Israeli high school for students of Russian-Jewish descent, where he and Page shared a stage with Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet prime minister. Meeting face-to-face with a new generation of emigrants, Brin told them, "You really have a lot of power that our generation did not. I think that will enable you to succeed earlier in life, and much more in life, than I did."

As the Google Guys have shown, anything is possible.

Mark Malseed is the coauthor, with David A. Vise, of "The Google Story" (Delacorte Press), and is a former researcher for Bob Woodward.

(2) PayPal, Google, Facebook, Wiki, Yahoo!, MySpace, eBay - all Jewish?

Behind the Net: PayPal,Goog,Facebk,Wiki,Yah,MySp,eBay

The Jewish (Zionist?) hand behind Internet

Freedom Research, June 2009

All Pics. + Graphics at:

http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm

Sections

* Google
* Facebook
* Wikipedia
* Yahoo!
* MySpace
* eBay
* Israeli guru Yossi Vardi
* Other actors - some Jewish articles boasting of their influence

Some Jewish "profiles" behind information on the Internet

Google
        (which in 2006 acquired Youtube)

Founders Brin and Page are Jewish

The Jewish site SomethingJewish.co.uk writes in a review by Marcus J. Freed of the book "Richistan", 05/09/2007 on "the Jewish boys from Google" <http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/2489_richistan_review.htm>:

The global economy is vastly different to 40 years ago and today's new billionaires include the Jewish boys from Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, along with thousands of other 'instapreneurs'. ==

Larry Page - who shares the title of Google President even has an Israeli family connection.

B´nai B´rith Magazine, paper of one of the mightiest Jewish organizations, writes in their article "The Searchmasters", spring 2006, on "...Larry Page, whose mother Gloria is Jewish". The Magazine continues:

Larry's maternal grandfather, however, followed a much different path. He was an early settler in Israel, making aliyah in the spartan desert town of Arad.

The Jewish entourage in Google

The Jew Craig Silverstein was the first employee hired by Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

The Jewish woman Susan Wojcicki was the one who gave Google office space to start the business. Susan Wojcicki has since become Vice President of Product Management at Google.

This while here likewise Jewish younger sister Anne Wojcicki, a biotechnology specialist, in May 2007 during "a traditional Jewish wedding" ceremony (according to Israeli paper Ha´aretz, May 29, 2008) married the Google President Sergey Brin. Keeping everything neatly within the tribe.

SomethingJewish.co.uk writes 24/05/2007

{Jewgle Wedding
by Leslie Bunder May 24th, 2007
http://www.jewtastic.com/posts/15629}

The world's wealthiest Jewish bachelor is no more. Sergey Brin, co-founder of search giant Google and worth over $16bn got hitched to his long-time love Anne Wojcicki earlier this month in the Bahamas, but so secret was the wedding, that it has only recently been confirmed.

According to a report in the San Jose Mercury News, the wedding took place under a chuppah with both Brin and Wojcicki confirming their commitment to the Jewish faith, though no rabbi is said to have officiated at the ceremony.

Wojcicki, is the sister of Susan Wojcicki who gave Google office space to start the business.

In 2001, Brin's mother Eugenia commented she hoped he would find a Jewish bride. "I hope he would keep that in mind," she said.

Wojcicki, who has a background in biotechnology, has been active in Jewish projects and currently sits on the board of Reboot, a venture that engages Jews to explore their culture.

Recently, Wojcicki launched a biotech company 23andMe which has seen Google itself invest several million dollars into it. ==

Justin Rosenstein was a top engineer at Google serving three years as Google´s Product Manager for Page Creator. Rosenstein was one of the first employees that Facebook´s Jewish boss Mark Zuckerberg poached from Google as Facebook began its rise in 2007. In 2008 Rosenstein left Facebook with Facebook´s likewise Jewish co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, to form a new company.

Sheryl Sandberg

Another Jewish profile who has been important in the shaping of Google is Sheryl Sandberg.

Sheryl Sandberg was Google Vice President of Global Online Sales & Operations, a position from where she built and managed the online sales channels for advertising and publishing and operations for consumer products globally. Sandberg was behind Google´s AdWords, and sat in the board of Google´s philantropic arm Google.org.

Before Google, Sandberg worked for the Jew Lawrence Summers, first when he was Chief Economist of the World Bank, then as his Chief of Staff when Summers was Treasury Secretrary in the Clinton Administration.

The Jewish Chronicle (December 4, 2008) ran an article on the book "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success" - a book by Rabbi Levi Brackman and Jewish journalist Sam Jaffe - where they argue that the Torah and ancient rabbinic texts are not simply guides for holy living, they can also provide helpful career advice. The Jewish Chronicle writes:

Their book combines tips on good business practice gleaned from the Bible, Midrash and Kabbalah with examples of success stories such as Andy Klein, who quit corporate law to start a brewery and ended up with an investment bank, or Sheryl Sandberg, who rose to become vice president for global sales for Google. And while there are role models to emulate, there also ones to avoid: Pharaoh the gas ruach (man of coarse spirit) or Korah, the ba'al ga'avah, the arrogant egotist.
 <http://www.levibrackman.com/jewish-wisdom-for-business-success/jewish-wisdom-for-business-success-featured-in-the-uks-jewish-chronicle/2.html>

Sheryl Sandberg

As Vice President of Google´s Global Sales Sandberg was behind the AdWords project which links paid advertisements to search results, a gadget that allowed Google to turn their search engine into "extremely profitable business", as Rabbi Levi Brackman and journalist Sam Jaffe write in their book "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success", p. 2. They have the case of Sheryl Sandberg in the first chapter in their book as an example of Jewish business sucess. In the same p. 2 of their book:

Early in 2008, she left Google to become the second-in-command of Facebook, the emerging social-networking company.

Sheryl Sandberg - Jewish "second-in-command of Facebook" - is presently Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. As COO, Sandberg is responsible for helping Facebook scale its operations and expand its presence globally. Sandberg manages sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy and communications and reports directly to Facebook's Jewish CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Sheryl Sandberg is well connected to the Jewish community and the "philantropy" business, a favourite Jewish pastime where they can take a small part of their enormous wealth gained from the "goyim" and put it in small projects completely after their taste, to show how humane, generous and an openminded they are. Sandberg was thus with Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, on a joint venture "addressing global poverty and social justice issues through philanthropy", December 10, 2008.

She also sponsors Jewish activities at for instance the Joshman Family Jewish Community Center, a center that not so surprisingly also has an "Israel connection", as their website says. The Joshman Center writes on this "Israel connection":

Our mission is to strengthen relationships between American Jews and the Israeli émigré community and to build a deeper connection to Israel.

See: http://www.paloaltojcc.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=Rambam's%20Ladder%20Award%20Dinner%20and%20Auction%202009&category=Special%20Events&submenu=Special_Events

Sandberg was included in Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women of 2007.

She is married to former Yahoo! music head David Goldberg with whom she has two children.

More Google Jews - Elliot Schrage and Ethan Beard

The Jew Elliot Schrage was since 2005 Google´s Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, the man who ran Google´s PR. He had this important position until May 2008 when he left for Facebook to work under the same role.

At Google, he broadened the company's messaging from a focus on only product PR to include all aspects of corporate, financial, policy, philanthropic and internal communications. Before Google Shrage served as a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Zionist infested "public policy think tank".

Schrage together with the Jewish US Holocaust Museum launched the Darfur tool to Google Earth (see article U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Join in Online Darfur Mapping Initiative http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/darfur_mapping.html):

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today joined with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to unveil an unprecedented online mapping initiative aimed at furthering awareness and action in the Darfur region of Sudan. Crisis in Darfur, enables more than 200 million Google Earth™ mapping service users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur. The Museum has assembled content - photographs, data and eyewitness testimony - from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth. This information will appear as a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth starting today.

Google Earth's Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs, joined Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield and Darfurian Daowd Salih at the launch.

Crisis in Darfur is the first project of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative that will over time include information on potential genocides allowing citizens, governments and institutions to access information on atrocities in their nascent stages and respond.

"Educating today's generation about the atrocities of the past and present can be enhanced by technologies such as Google Earth," says Bloomfield. "When it comes to responding to genocide, the world's record is terrible. We hope this important initiative with Google will make it that much harder for the world to ignore those who need us the most."

"At Google, we believe technology can be a catalyst for education and action," said Elliot Schrage, Google Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs. "Crisis in Darfur will enable Google Earth users to visualize and learn about the destruction in Darfur as never before and join the Museum's efforts in responding to this continuing international catastrophe."

Of course spreading the knowledge of Israel´s genocidal destruction of Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza in the 2009 assault is not part of this education.

Another actor is Ethan Beard who was Google´s Director of Social Media. He has since left for Facebook to become Director of Facebook's Business Development and then Facebook's Director of Platform marketing. There are indications that he is Jewish.

Manber - Google´s Israeli Vice President of Engineering

Google's Vice President of Engineering, Udi Manber, is Israeli and a graduate from the Israel´s Technion Institute in Haifa.

He has a long record of top jobs in Internet related positions.

Manber became the chief scientist at Yahoo! in 1998.

In 2002, he joined Amazon.com, where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a Vice President. He was later appointed CEO of the Amazon subsidiary company A9.com, where he led the company's A9 search engine work.

In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of Google´s Vice Presidents of Engineering. In December 2007, he announced Knol, Google's new project to create a knowledge repository.

Mandber as a senior Google operative, interacts with the Judeo-Zionist community.

Here is an advertisment which discloses how Google´s Manber will sit with a Rabbi and discuss Talmud and the Web (http://www.oakland.com/google-s-talmud-the-web-jewish-culture-and-the-power-of-associative-thinking-e394931):

Thu Sep 18, 2008

Contemporary Jewish Museum presents

Google's Talmud: The Web, Jewish Culture, and the Power of Associative Thinking

Location
            The Contemporary Jewish Museum
            736 Mission Street
            San Francisco, CA 94103

district: Downtown/Financial District

Location Date and Time
            Thu Sep 18, 2008 (7:00 PM - 8:30 PM)

Description
            One of the hallmarks of Jewish culture and scholarship is an emphasis on commentary and "associative thinking," a method essential to the creation of the Talmud and thousands of years of Biblical commentary. Udi Manber, Google's Vice President for Engineering and best-selling technology critic Howard Rheingold will join Rabbi Lawrence Kushner in a panel discussion exploring the connections between art, technology, and Jewish culture, as seen through the new social, intellectual, and spiritual implications of the idea of "search." This will be followed by a discussion with Dan Schifrin, the Museum's director of public programs and writer in residence. 

Advertisement for the event was also made in the Jewish Weekly: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/35726/calendar/

Google's Jewish guru of giving

In the article "Google's guru of giving" (http://www.financialexpress.com/news/googles-guru-of-giving/265113/0), January 24, 2008, The Financial Express details Larry Brilliant. Dr Brilliant led the Internet giant's philanthropic arm Google.org, where he ruled over a and 40-strong team:

As well as adopting the informal company motto, "Don't be evil", the internet search firm's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, decided to commit Google to engage in serious philanthropy. Innovative as ever, they created a new sort of philanthropic entity, a division of the company that could pursue its mission through both for-profit investing and making charitable grants. This, they hoped, would one day "eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems."

It would be funded with 1% of the firm's equity, annual profits and employees' time.

In February 2006, after a lengthy search, Dr Brilliant was appointed to run Google.org. Media reports focused on the old hippy's colourful past, not least his spell as a doctor with the Grateful Dead, a legendary 1960s rock band. What attracted his new employers was his unique record of success both in running Silicon Valley tech firms and in implementing large-scale solutions to big social problems.
            [...]
            Though he has taken nearly two years to produce a strategy for Google.org, Dr Brilliant has not been taking things easy. He may have added a taste for Hindu meditation to his Detroit Jewish roots (he once shared a guru with Apple's boss, Steve Jobs), but he is a driven man, travelling widely and seeking advice from hundreds of people, pushing himself harder than friends say is wise for a sexagenarian. When he arrived at Google.org he found extraordinarily high expectations, a blank sheet of paper to fill with a strategy, and "microscopic attention" from outside on what it was doing.

During his time as Google´s philantropic boss Brilliant combined his work with his dedication for Jews and Judaism. For instance Brilliant, as Executive Director of Google.org, appeared as a speaker at the Jewish Community Federation in San Fransisco´s Business Leadership Council Breakfast meeting. February 28, 2007. According to the organization´s homepage (http://www.sfjcf.org/aboutjcf/press/2007/brilliant.asp):

Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, will share his vision for "Healing a Broken World" with attendees at the second annual Business Leadership Council Breakfast on Wednesday, February 28, 2007.
            [...]
            Dr. Larry Brilliant is the Executive Director of Google.org, the umbrella organization which includes the Google Foundation as well as partnerships with and contributions to for-profit and nonprofit entities.
            [...]
            Sponsored by AT&T and Levisohn Venture Partners, this special BLC event is open to all donors who contribute $1,000 or more to the 2007 San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation's Annual Campaign. Donors under the age of 40 who contribute $500 are also welcome.

The Jewish Community Federation is the central organization for fundraising, planning, outreach and leadership development for Jewish communities in San Francisco, the Peninsula, and Marin and Sonoma counties. In fiscal year 2006, the Federation's annual campaign allocated $18.3 million to some 60 agencies providing social services, educational and cultural programs in the Bay Area, in the U.S., Israel and elsewhere in the world. In fiscal year 2006, the Federation's Endowment Fund, with assets exceeding $1.8 billion, provided more than $203 million for a variety of grants, seed projects and emergency needs. For more information, call 415.777.0411 or visit www.sfjcf.org.

So here we can see how the Google boss fraternises with an organization that is interrelated to the Zionist state.

In April 2009 Larry Brilliant, after 3 years at Google, said he was parting ways with the Internet giant, leaving Google.org to join a new organisation set up by former eBay President and Jew, Jeff Skoll. But Dr Brilliant also said he would remain as an advisor to Google.

Google´s Israel connections

Here follows a most revealing article on how Google´s Sergey Brin, Facebook´s Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo´s President Susan Decker, are invited by the Israeli leadership to Israel, during Israel´s 60th anniversary celebrations:

Facebook, Google founders to attend Jerusalem conference in May

by Guy Grimland, Ha´aretz Correspondent

Ha´aretz 01/04/2008

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/970667.html

Co-founder of internet giant Google, Sergey Brin, will join Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Yahoo president Susan Decker at a presidential panel on technology to be held at the Jerusalem International Convention Center May 13-15.

The convention, which was formed at the initiative of President Shimon Peres, will also be attended by a number of Israeli political, religious and financial leaders, as well as academics and cultural figures.

The panel will discuss issues facing technology in today's age and the future, in particular in regard to how it will affect Israel and the Jewish world.

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair will also take part in the conference, as will French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former prime minister of the Czech Republic Vaclev Havel, Nobel Prize Laureate Eli Wiesel, and Georgia President Michael Saakashvili. ==

The Israel News Agency also writes (http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israel60thbirthdaypresidentsconferenceshimonperesanniversaryjerusalemolmertfacingtomorrow48050708.html):

In attendance, in addition to many national presidents and heads of state will be dignitaries from the worlds of business and academia. Among them are Sergey Brin, founder of Google and Susan Decker of Yahoo. Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson will be serving as the honorary chairpersons for the Israel 60th Birthday Presidential Conference which has enthusiastically attracted the attention of Jewish leaders and others worldwide.

And B' nai B' rith Magazine (http://bnaibrith.org/magazines/2008FallBBM/future-concerns-mariaschin.cfm) are also happy with the representation:

I was particularly impressed with the large numbers of young people in attendance, representing Israeli universities and aliyah organizations like MASA. At the conclusion of the panel discussion moderated by Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi and featuring, among others, Brin, the co-founder of Google; Susan Decker of Yahoo; and Rupert Murdoch, several dozen young adults crowded on stage to meet the speakers - and more than one business card was exchanged.

Google´s Sergey Brin at Western Wall, Jerusalem

We write more on the Zionists attending this conference in our section on Yahoo!.

Google´s business cooperation with Israel

Ha´aretz online edition 15/05/2008, writes:

Google co-founder lauds Israeli innovation in tech, environment

by Lior Kodner, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983810.html

Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday lauded Israeli innovations in technology and environmental efforts, saying Israel "takes our climate challenges very seriously."

Brin, visiting as a delegate to President Shimon Peres' Presidential Conference, told Haaretz that these challenges have "great geopolitcal ramifications on this country, in addition to environmental ones."

He noted that Israel's leading efforts in the field of sustainable energy, saying: "Obviously in Israel they need to innovate with water and things like that. I was really intrigued to see drip irrigation. I just realized that came out of Israel."

Brin gave particular attention to Israel's work in environmentally friendly transportation.

A prototype of the world's first fully electric car was demonstrated for the first time on Sunday in Tel Aviv, by Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi.

Developers hope the car will revolutionize transportation in the country and serve as a pilot for the rest of the world. If all goes as planned, Israel will be the first country to have electric cars on its highways in large numbers in the next few years.

Brin also spoke about new projects ongoing at Google, including the "huge range of efforts" being made on mobile technology and the patience needed in the field.

"I think it takes a while to devlop the technology, to devlop, to educate advertisers about it," he said. "We have to bootstrap everything. our search based targeted ads took a number of yearsand people are expecting overnight that you work a miracle. It is a combination of technology, advertising networks, abd user expectations. All those things have to come together and that takes time," he said.

During his visit, Brin toured Jewish sites, including the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. ==

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, announced the establishment of an R&D center in Israel. Ha´aretz 30/01/2006 writes:

Google to tap local talent

Wants to found R&D center in Israel

by Guy Rolnik

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=676494

DAVOS, Switzerland – Google "is in the process of establishing an R&D center in Israel," Sergey Brin, a founder of the Internet search titan, told Haaretz during the World Economic Forum here. Brin and co-founder Larry Page were among the more visible participants at the economic conference. Both have a solid connection with Israeli entrepreneurs in the Internet field.

A Google executive told Haaretz that the company had recently recruited a large number of academics, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians and economists for additional development of the company's search engine algorithm and its smart ad systems on the Net. There is still a shortage of quality personnel for developing analytic tools and predicting the massive volume of information accumulated on the search engine.
            [...]
            Last summer, Google decided to establish a local marketing and sales branch in Israel to bolster its advertising revenues in the Israel market. Google hired Meir Brand to head its Israel office, choosing a former Microsoft executive just as it had done in China.  ==            

Ha´aretz interview with Sergey Brin in Israel, May 29, 2008:

'I've been very lucky in my life'

By Guy Rolnik

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/986222.html

[...]
            This is Brin's third visit to Israel. The first time was with his parents, when he was still a teenager, and the second was in September 2003, when Google was still a relatively small, privately owned company. Last week, however, Brin arrived here as the head of one of the largest and most influential companies in the world.

How has Israel changed since your previous visits?

"It's pretty impressive just to see how the tech industry has continued to grow. The development, kind of just looking at the city of Tel Aviv. I mean, there are a bunch of buildings. Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like there are lots of buildings that weren't here when I was here last. And I've just seen some of the companies and their state of development, the levels developed here - it's just incredible."
            [...]
            Did your family ever consider immigrating to Israel?

"Boy, I need to ask them that. In fact, my great-grandmother lived in the U.S. for a period of time, so we did have some ties to the U.S. I think my dad actually had a colleague who had moved to the U.S., who had given him greater certainty [with respect to] the job market. And those were the big factors. But I can ask. My parents are here with me - I mean, not in the office, but in Israel."

In hindsight, considering what you see now in the U.S. and Israel, if your parents had come here, do you think we would have Google today?

[Laughs] "Look, I've been very lucky in my life, and I'm sure there've been lots of random circumstances that have contributed to that, so I probably would not be the first to change it. But looking at the kinds of innovation and development that I see here now, I certainly think it's possible to enjoy great success coming to Israel." ==

Google´s cooperation with Jewish censors

Below are some articles illustrating how Google assists Jewish Internet censorship. The articles show that Google follows dictats from ADL and the Zionist Organization of America, that Google "robots" censor pro-Palestinian bloggers, and that sites like Radio Islam are censored.

* ADL Praises Google for Responding to Concerns About Rankings of Hate Sites
              includes letter from Google Jew Sergey Brin and Google´s explantion for the word "Jew"

* How the Zionist Organization of America shapes Google´s policies
              ZOA complains about "anti-Semitism" ...and Google adjusts promptly

* ZOA Convinces Google to Change the Earth
              the Zionist Organization of America changes the way we view the World through Google Earth
              
            * Google´s war on pro-Palestinian bloggers
              Google´s "robots" unmasked, Is Google ethnic cleansing the Internet?
              
            * Uruknet cut off from Google News again! - external link
              information on how an Iraq war information site is being censored by Google

* Jew Gotta' Friend At Google - what is "hate speech"?
              Google News stops indexing what it calls "hate spech"

* "Google This"! - on Google´s Israel rush
              by Philip Jones, Rense.com

* Google Fascists?
              looking into the worrying implications of Google's near monopoly of web search engines

* Censorship of the Internet - study reveals Google censorship of Radio Islam´s sites
              by Germar Rudolf

Here we will give attention to one extra article to show how the Zionist organization ADL cooperates with Google. In 2007 a conference was held in Israel with ADL, the International Network Against Cyberhate, and Google´s Israel Director Meir Brand. Ha´aretz, 12/11/2007, writes:

Organizers of the conference representing the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that counters anti-Semitism, brought examples of anti-Jewish hate material freely available on the Internet, and participants called for more action to stop it.
            [...]
            He [Meir Brand] said Google removes results from its search index only when required to by law, for example, when copyright infringement is an issue. In Germany and Austria, he said, Google removes Nazi content, which is against the law there.

Recognizing the problem, however, Google has instituted a warning system for hate entries, taking viewers to a page warning that some of the search results may be offensive, and noting that opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect Google's views.

Just as a small reminder ADL:s Director Abraham Foxman was one of many top Jewish dignitaries in Israel celebrating Israel´s 60th Anniversary back in 2008.

Appendix

Excerpts from the article "Sergey Brin: the Google revolutionary", by Mark Malseed, The Jewish Chronicle, April 6, 2007 [the complete article can be read here]:

"This intensity emerges during weekly strategy meetings, where he and Page  -  who share the title of Google president  -  command the last word on approving new products, reviewing new hires and funding long-term research.

Brin also holds sway over the unscientific but all-important realms of people, policy and politics."

"Brin's Jewish sensibility is, likewise, grounded in his family's experience of life in the Soviet Union, and their eventual emigration to the United States. "I do somewhat feel like a minority," he says. "Being Jewish, especially in Russia, is one aspect of that. Then, being an immigrant in the US. And then, since I was significantly ahead in maths in school, being the youngest one in a class. I never felt like a part of the majority. So I think that is part of the Jewish heritage in a way.""

"As a young boy, though, he had only a vague awareness of why his family wanted to leave their native Russia. He picked up the ugly details of the antisemitism they faced bit by bit years later, he says. Nevertheless, he sensed, early on, all of the things that he wasn't - he wasn't Russian; he wasn't welcome in his own country; he wasn't going to get a fair shake in advancing through its schools. Further complicating his understanding of his Jewish identity was the fact that, under the atheist Soviet regime, there were few religious or cultural models of what being Jewish was. The negatives were all he had."

"For many Soviet Jews, exit visas never came. But, in May 1979, the Brins were granted papers to leave the USSR. "We hoped it would happen," Genia says, "but we were completely surprised by how quickly it did." The timing was fortuitous - they were among the last Jews allowed to leave until the Gorbachev era. Sergey Brin, who turned six that summer, remembers what followed as simply unsettling" - literally so. "We were in different places from day to day," he says. The journey was a blur. First Vienna, where the family was met by representatives of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which helped thousands of Eastern European Jews establish new lives in the West. Then, on to the suburbs of Paris, where Michael's "unofficial" Jewish PhD adviser, Anatole Katok, had arranged a temporary research position for him."

"One thing the Brins shared with thousands of other families emigrating to the West from the Soviet Union was the discovery that, suddenly, they were free to be Jews. "Russian Jews lacked the vocabulary to even articulate what they were feeling," says Lenny Gusel, the founder of a San Francisco-based network of Russian-Jewish immigrants. "They were considered Jews back home. Here, they were considered Russians. Many longed just to assimilate as Americans." Gusel's group, which he calls the "79ers", after the peak year of immigration in the 1970s, and its New York cousin, RJeneration, have attracted hundreds of 20- and 30-something immigrants who grapple with their Jewish identity. "Sergey is the absolute emblem of our group, the number one Russian-Jewish immigrant success story," he says.

The Brins were no different from their fellow immigrants in that being Jewish was an ethnic, not a religious, experience. "We felt our Jewishness in different ways, not by keeping kosher or going to synagogue. It is genetic," explains Sergey's father Michael. "We were not very religious. My wife doesn't eat on Yom Kippur; I do." Genia interjects: "We always have a Passover dinner. We have a Seder. I have the recipe for gefilte fish from my grandmother." Religious or not, on arriving in the suburbs of Washington, the Brins were adopted by a synagogue, Mishkan Torah of Greenbelt, Maryland, which helped them acquire furnishings for their home. "We didn't need that much, but we saw how much the community helped other families," Genia says. Sergey attended Hebrew school at Mishkan Torah for almost three years but hated the language instruction - and everything else, too. "He was teased there by other kids and he begged us not to send him any more," his other remembers. "Eventually, it worked." the Conservative congregation turned out to be too religious for the Brins and they drifted.

When a three-week trip to Israel awakened 11- year-old Sergey's interest in all things Jewish, the family inquired at another synagogue about restarting studies to prepare for a barmitzvah. But the rabbi said it would take more than a year to catch up and Sergey abandoned the pursuit. If there was one Jewish value the Brin family upheld without reservation, Michael says, it was scholarship."

Sergey Brin

"What came next is Google legend. In the spring of 1995, Sergey met an opinionated computer- science student from the University of Michigan named Larry Page. They argued over the course of two days, each finding the other cocky and obnoxious. They also formed an instant bond, relishing the intellectual combat. Like Sergey, Larry is the son of high-powered intellects steeped in computer science. The two young graduate students also share a Jewish background.

Larry's maternal grandfather made aliyah, and his mother was raised Jewish. Larry, however, brought up in the mould of his father, a computer-science professor whose religion was technology, does not readily identify as a Jew. He, too, never had a barmitzvah. Larry and Sergey soon began working on ways to harness information on the web, spending so much time together that they took on a joint identity, LarryandSergey"."

"Their venture quickly bore fruit. After viewing a quick demo, Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim (himself a Jewish immigrant from Germany) wrote a $100,000 cheque to "Google, Inc"."

"They are without a doubt two of the most eligible bachelors on Google Earth, but both are reported to be in serious relationships - Sergey is reportedly engaged to Anne Wojcicki, a healthcare investor and the sister of Google executive Susan Wojcicki, who owned the garage where Google got started. In a 2001 interview, Genia said she hoped Sergey would find "somebody exciting who could be really interesting to him... [who] had a sense of humour that could match his". As one might expect, she also prefers that Sergey marry a Jewish girl. "I hope that he would keep it in mind," she confided."

"The Ten Commandments it is not, but Google does operate with a moral code of sorts. "Don't be evil" is the maxim supposed to guide behaviour at all levels of the company. When pressed for clarification, Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has famously said: "Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil." One malevolent practice, in Google's view, is tampering with or otherwise censoring the list of results produced by a Google search. An early test of the Google founders' commitment to providing unfiltered information struck very close to home. The antisemitic website Jew Watch appeared prominently in Google results for searches on the term "Jew", prompting Jewish groups to demand that Google remove the site from the top of its listings. Google refused. Sergey said at the time: "I certainly am very offended by the site, but the objectivity of our rankings is one of our very important principles." As a compromise, Google displays a warning at the top of questionable pages."

"Viewed against the backdrop of Sergey's distaste for authority, the decision to cave in to China's totalitarian leadership seems out of character. Sergey's public comments on the matter have evolved to reflect this contradiction. While defending the decision at first, he later acknowledged that Google had "compromised" its principles. "Perhaps now the principled approach makes more sense," he has said, but adding: "It's not where we chose to go right now." Does a company founded by two Jews, no matter how assimilated, necessarily retain some defining Jewish characteristics? The Google masterminds' penchant for pushing boundaries - without asking permission - might as well be called chutzpah.

However you label it, it is an attitude that runs deeply through Google and may help explain why the company is embroiled in lawsuits over many of its new projects: the aggressive scanning of library books it does not own; display of copyrighted material; and copyright issues connected to its acquisition of YouTube, the online video site whose popularity rests in part on the availability of pirated television and movie clips. Google's first employee and several other early hires were Jewish and, when the initial winter-holiday season rolled around, a menorah rather than a Christmas tree graced the lobby. Google's former chef, Charlie Ayers, cooked up latkes, brisket, tzimmes and matzah-ball soup for Chanucah meals and turned the Passover Seder into a Google tradition.

To some, Google's emphasis on academic achievement - hiring only the best and the brightest and employing hundreds of PhDs - could be considered Jewish. So, perhaps, could "Don't be evil". With its hint of tikkun olam, the Kabbalistic concept of "repairing the world", it reflects the company's commitment to aggressive philanthropy."

"Nevertheless, he and his parents do support a few charities. "There are people who helped me and my family out. I do feel responsible to those organisations," he says. One of them is Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the group that helped the Brins come to the United States. Genia serves on its board and heads its project to create a digital record of Jewish-immigrant archives. Has Sergey been a target of antisemitism since he left the Soviet Union? "I've experienced it," he says. "Usually, it is fairly subtle. People arp on about all the media companies being run by Jewish executives, with the implication of a conspiracy... I think I'm fortunate that it doesn't really affect me personally, but there are hints of it all around. That's why I think it is worth noting.""

"Several years ago, Sergey and Larry visited a school for gifted maths students near Tel Aviv. When they took to the stage, the audience roared, as if they were rock stars. Every student there, many of them, like Sergey, immigrants, from the former Soviet Union, knew of Google. Sergey began, to the crowd's delight, with a few words in Russian, which he still speaks at home with his parents. "I have standard Russian-Jewish parents," he then continued in English. "My dad is a maths professor. They have a certain attitude about studies. And I think I can relate that here, because I was told that your school recently got seven out of the top 10 places in a maths competition throughout all Israel."

The students applauded their achievement and the recognition from Sergey, unaware that he was setting up a joke. "What I have to say," he continued, "is in the words of my father: 'What about the other three?'" The students laughed. They knew where he was coming from. That Sergey has parlayed his skills into unimaginable business success does not mean those "standard Russian-Jewish parents" are ready to let him off the academic hook." ...

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