Google 2012 is not Google 2002. Results which would get mentioned on the nightly news get fixed, period.
I disagree. We certainly like to fix bad results, but not manually. There's a very narrow range of things Google is willing to do manually in search. One of them is taking action on sites that are found to have violated the webmaster guidelines, but banning a result from a query just because it's embarrassing isn't something we do.
For instance, in that example you cite, jewwatch.com is still at number 2 for [jew].
I disagree. We certainly like to fix bad results, but not manually. There's a very narrow range of things Google is willing to do manually in search. One of them is taking action on sites that are found to have violated the webmaster guidelines, but banning a result from a query just because it's embarrassing isn't something we do.
For instance, in that example you cite, jewwatch.com is still at number 2 for [jew].