Google searches for the word “Jew” on Tuesday showed an offensive stereotype as the primary definition of the word.
Search results displayed that the meaning of “Jew” was “to bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way,” the Jerusalem Post first reported.
When clicking on “translations and more definitions,” the origin of the verb was said to be a 19th-century reference to how Jewish people lend and trade money.
The search result, which Google derived from data at Oxford Languages, had the definition listed as offensive.
Underneath that was the noun for “Jew,” which said “a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.