[njharman]

"turns up skins which are disgustingly, hatefully pro-Nazism and pro-Hitler. That's a problem, no matter how you look at this."

"hard look at what censorship really means, and what kind of role it can (and clearly should) play in the new frontier of app marketplaces"

That's a seriously fucked up view on censorship right there. I hope it's just a troll and author really doesn't believe that censorship is ok, and censoring what they don't like is fine and dandy.

Also maybe the reason author thinks "Jewish" and "Hitler" are unrelated search terms is because the only history they have read had all the "hate filled" parts censored.

[Zak]

I think the author believes that censorship is desirable for privately-run marketplaces such as the Android Market and Apple App Store.

I don't have a problem with the idea of Google censoring its market to some degree. Unlike Apple, Google has provided users with the ability to install software from any source, significantly mitigating the impact of any censorship. If Google doesn't want to censor hate speech, I'm ok with that too. Ultimately, it's their store, and it's up to them to decide what's sold in it.

I do, however believe that this is an example of poor search results. Someone searching for "Jewish" probably doesn't want this theme, even though it's relevant to the search term.

[adolph]

I think the author intended to mean not-relevant instead of not-related. The relation between the search terms is such that results for one are likely not desirable to someone searching for the other.

Maybe thats the real scandal here: Google's market search returns not relevant results!