The marketing director of a Jewish heritage museum in America has hit out at Google after it emerged that the museum was paying the search engine to prevent a neo-Nazi website from appearing as the top result for the query “did the Holocaust happen?”.
David Schendowich from the Breman Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, said that it was “nauseating” that Google was directing users to the white supremacist site, adding that the museum was paying the search engine redirect web users to its own site.
“They may not take money from people denying the Holocaust, but the point is that museums and other organisations are paying to combat this stuff. They plainly are. We are. We’re paying them up to $2 a click”, he said.
The director of the Breman Museum, Aaron Berger, said that according to the Southern Law Poverty Centre, Atlanta was the fourth-worst state in the US for active hate groups.
