DUSHABE, July 11, 2013, Asia-Plus – Halalgoogling, the World”s unique Muslim search engine that has a built in system to filter
haram
(forbidden according to Islamic law) content, was launched on July 9.
According to the report, a special and unique filter system excludes forbidden content from its search results such as “pornography, nudity, gay, lesbian, bisexual, gambling, anti-Islamic content”.
The report says a team of ‘internet experts’ all around the world had been working for years on the project. The need for such a search engine arose “with 1.5 billion Muslims around the world worrying about the content provided over the internet to their children and even themselves.”
The system is being updated continuously, and has been designed to respect Muslim culture, the report stated.
Halalgoogling comes up with the following system components for safe searching over the internet: general category filtering (filtering of overall search results amongst different categories; forbidden sites (a list of blacklisted websites that are not allowed to appear in the search results); link filtering (removal of specific pages/links from within a website, blog or forum);
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keywords (a list of keywords that are not allowed to be searched); and report button, which allows users to identify and email Halalgoogling admin when
haram
content is found.
