The Internet is a wild and woolly wonderland full of information, entertainment, infotainment, and all sorts of things that may or may not be appropriate for human consumption. If you’re a person with religious morals and values, odds are you’ve got Google’s SafeSearch on, but what if you wanted to make sure you had the safest and most appropriate results for your particular religious belief system? Google can’t isolate you from the world of horrors that lurks on the Internet, which is why people are turning to religious-themed search engines to do their online browsing.
There’s one for every religious strain: SeekFind for Christians, I’mHalal for Muslims, and Jewogle for Jews. Of course, some people feel that the search engines promote censorship, but naturally the founders of each search engine disagree with that statement. “In a sense, I guess kind of what SeekFind does is a form of censorship, but I would more describe it as selective inclusion,” says SeekFind’s founder Shea Houdmann. Added I’mHalal founder Reza Sardeha, “People were avoiding the Internet because they were afraid they or their children would bump into explicit content. It’s a shame.”
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