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Halal search engine will help Muslims avoid forbidden internet sites

Lucy Cockcroft
Posted: September 1, 2009.
Published: 01 Sep 2009.

Print: Telegraph.co.uk

The search engine, ImHalal.com, only fetches results that are flagged as “Halal” and safe for Muslim users.

While the internet has grown in popularity across the Islamic world, many Muslims have been put off search engines because of religious concerns.

ImHalal.com’s founder, Reza Sardeha, said he got the idea for the site after friends complained that the more popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!, were flagging up explicit content.

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Funny!

You search for “porn” or “sex” and this is the result:
“Oops! Your search inquiry has a Haram level of 3 out of 3! I would like to advise you to change your search terms and try again.”
but “slavery” and “genocide” seem to be ok.

“boobs” seems to be almost fine: “Oops! Your search inquiry has a Haram level of 2 out of 3. This means that the results fetched by ImHalal.com could be haram!
If you still think the results will be clean click me!”

And “sam harris” is ok. Lovely.

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