The search engine filters content according to Islamic law. PHOTO: Publicity
A Muslim search engine that blocks forbidden content "according to Islamic law" was launched today, a press release stated.
‘Halalgoogling’ fetches results from leading search engines such as Google and Bing and has a built-in "advanced special filtering system that blocks Haram content according to the Law of Islam", the press release said.
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".
According to the report, 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. The new search engine hopes to be the number one search engine in the Muslim community, it added.
Features
Halalgoogling comes up with the following system components for safe searching over the internet:
General category filtering: A 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.
Haram Keywords: A list of keywords that are not allowed to be searched.
Report button: Which allows users to identify and email Halalgoogling admin when haram content is found.
Only from Pakistan: Option to see page results from within the country exclusively.
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@Haris Chaudhry:
DO you know what a school is.Seen one? Go research some history and find out who gave the world knowledge of all the things u stated. Come out from under the rock you live in.
Well I tried Haaretz, Israeli newspaper, and found it, being halal. Next I tried al Jazeera, found it too although some Muslims consider it satanic. Even info about the Muslim freethinker Abdennur Prado was accepted. My conclusion is that this halal operation is either very liberal or has not yet developped its fundamentalist attitude. Stay vigilant, dear fellow citizens.
I guess zakir naik has good fan following in Pak. He is doing good job of spreading hinduism in Pak. Now at least you guys know something about Krishna, do some more reading and you will know more.
@ThePaki Even in Hindu law, marriagable age was 12-13 years for girls till the 1800s. It has been through consistent efforts of reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and others that marriage age has been brought up to 18 for girls and 21 for boys. (although Indian muslims and other subgroups have been given exception under their extremely backward personal law).
@The Paki!: Forget religion for one moment and answer this simple question. Would you get your daughter married at 6 to a man of 40 years ?
This is very very useful for our child.
How we can download it .
this is good effort to fight against evil and to provide porn free platform to Muslims around the world.
@Sami: exactly, follow your own principles, if you dont like something dont do it...but dont force others..
@The Paki! - "...stop these blasphemous comments"..
Well the blasphemous comments you made for Lord Krishna were responded by another round of blasphemous comments... What are you doing next? Invoke blasphemy law and ban the net?? Cmon man grow up... Better to develop a healthy respect for all religious personalities...
@The Paki!: good reply
@shariq: good reply to my dear friend
Qudos to the developers of this software. They will be rembered and respected as defenders of the faith. long after the faith is extinct.
this is a good step for muslims.this is not as large as google but we hope that soon it will get the place of google.
Well, take it as business, why you all people are discussing religion here? Its choice whether to use or not... Still guys at the back have to do a lot to filter things. One can find erotic stuff still on Halalgoogling
This search engine itself is Halaal, as it is using an invention developed by Jews, Christians and Infidels. It also uses the programs developed by the idol worshippers.
@The Paki!:
Thanks to your ancestors who ruled India for centuries and got use to the pagans cultures instead of the christians in Europe who annhlated Paganism completely.
Rex Minor
@Amna: Let me reiterate the wrong assumptions the religious fundamentals make about evolution...
Saying we evolved from apes is like saying you evolved from your cousin....But the truth is that both u and cousin had the same grandfather...
There are enough fossil evidences to show the different stages in the development of man like the Neanderthals,Homo erectus etc...
If God really designed us,he wouldnt have given us an appendix which only bursts and kills us....and he would have been one of the most lousiest designer who kept the waste disposal system right next to the entertainment complex.. if you know what I mean
I suspect most of the commentators here never heard of 'parental control' :P
@Aditya Choudhary: Is this how you view Islam? If yes, then you don't know about Islam.
Muslims will never be happy no matter what you do! Please help us out to get youtube unblocked.
a very immature deed of misguided fellows...... instead of addressing the social taboos the trend is flowing to strengthen them further
i appreciate the whole team . i hope such like youtube engine will be introduce
@ pm
Your question has already been answered above addressing @ lol. And I request the moderators of ET to stop these blasphemous comments. I don't understand how on the earth you guys are allowing such comments?
ma sha All this is a well searching engine to save ur eman.
Actually, it works pretty well.
But the question to be asked, who is it targeted at?
If I am really looking for porn, I will go to halalgoogling and halalgoogle 'regular' google and then google porn.
Or I straight away go to google.
This site works only if Islamic countries ban all other search engines such as google, yahoo, bing etc.
If I am not really looking for anything banned in Islam, then I can as well look for them on a regular search Engline.
Nonetheless, it works and good luck to those who intend to use it.
Is this is a RAW, Mossad or CIA conspiracy to keep Muslims back. Any censoring of information is limitation of information. Any sensible user can self filter objectionable results. Why withhold information
@The Paki! / amir/ Namaloom - " Lord Krishna’s formal marriage to 16,100 girls rescued from the prison of demon of Narakasura."
Hmm... How abt seduction of minors at the age of 6 and raping them when 9, by lecherous old men of 40... I bet this would definitely show up.
Hail the next biggest company in the world after Google!
Per this site, 'Pork dishes' is halal. So the next time a Muslim guy pretends to freak out because of pork, I will refer him to this halal site.
Some not-so-true muslims will roll out Halal porn sites for muslims and only exploited non-muslim girls will be there to enjoy. Lol....
even if it founds non halal websites but initially it is a good idea nothing is perfect and it is still in beta so hopefully it will be improved.
A news article regarding safe search results on the Internet has turned out into a slanging match between Pakistan and India. There is a famous saying which goes something along these lines "The more things change, the more they remain the same". Guess this saying is very apt when it comes to the relationship between the two countries - always bitter, acrimonious and out to take a cheap dig at any given opportunity. When are we going to grown up ?
If objectionable and blasphemous contents can be blocked/filtered on "halalgoogling.com" then why not on "Youtube" and if PTA can't filter blasphemous contents of "Youtube" then ask the "halalgoogling.com's officials to do this job so that 'Youtube' could be accessible in Pakistan after filtering the blasphemous contents......
@Amna:
While I am glad that you didn't say Evolution is just a theory, I am quite astonished what you said in the rest of your statement.
So many Mullahs, even in India, along with many Christians, who are Creationists, say Evolution is untrue, obviously because Science invalidates their Religion.
But, you say its not so.. I urge to take your views to the multitudes of Islamic experts and convince the same.
I am on the side of Science, anyway..
can't. stop. rolling. eyes. groan
@inam101: Google is a trade mark but it has entered into dictionary as a verb, so any derivative of this verb is no longer a trade-mark violation… . Don't tell me you just made this stuff up. "Fedexing" a document is also considered a modern verb, but it doesn't mean that you can use "Fedex" or its derivative to name your local courier company. "Fair Use" disallows the use of copyright for financial gain or commercial purposes.
Well, it gave results for "child bride", honor killing" and "female circumcision"
@MjL If someone were to dig up similar things (and there are many ‘narrations’ which qualify) from your belief system you’d accuse them of blasphemy and causing offence.
Perhaps you forgot the person who started this argument at the top of the comments thread went on an all-out offensive making fun of Muslims. We are simply making a rebuttal. I think there's a moral to be learnt here. Don't make fun of others lest it backfires on you.
Despite making me laugh at first, I should say its an appreciable effort. atleast some people somewhere are worried about our children being exposed to unwanted contents. Yes I think its a matter btw individual and the Lord but I will definitely benefit from it in training my children. After all these contents can never be termed healthy by anyone. (I hope)
This sounds similar to the Imhalal.com search engine that closed some years back due to lack of funding. If Pakistanis can just grow up they will not need any of this nonsense.
@BruteForce: Nice try to be funny but actually Islamic teachings go hand in hand with evolution. Just not the theory that we come from apes. Evolution happens...but it is done by Allah. one of His 99 names is actually Al-Bari...the Evolver.
@Aditya Chouhdary 1400 or so many years ago when men were dying in wars and women were totally financially dependent on men, it was allowed to have 4 at a time, but there were conditions one of the very first and most important one was to get permission from the first wife, if she seems unhappy then he MUST NOT do it, also if he could could give equal rights to all of them then it was permissible ...in today's world it is next to impossible to give equal rights to more than one wife so NO muslim men cannot go and just marry 4 women, if they do out of whatever reason pleasure of whatever, they will be held resposnible for their acts in the hereafter, the ultimate day of judgment ..thats what muslims believe in, so please give some respect ...and @ all the people abusing Lord Krishna, you should be ashamed of yourself for disrespecting Hindus and their beliefs, what makes you think you will be raised to the higher level of jannah by carrying out such acts, disgusting!
@The Paki!: Salute you SIR!!!!
@ everyone
why do you guys have to take things so negatively? grow up. Look at the bright side? Parents can feel a bit more secured knowing that there children are using this browser instead of looking up things they shouldnt be?
At last the extremists were able to do something peace full.
It does not work :D Just try to search "babes"
good idea..
Good Idea.. at least vulgar content will have blocked.. I think the positive information about any topic should be given here according to the teachings of Islam..
@abdussamad: Google is a trade mark but it has entered into dictionary as a verb, so any derivative of this verb is no longer a trade-mark violation...
@Asif:
If someone were to dig up similar things (and there are many 'narrations' which qualify) from your belief system you'd accuse them of blasphemy and causing offence. Why the double standards?
'Halalgoogling'? Really! Have the geniuses who came up with name thought of the legal ramifications of said name? Google has many high priced lawyers who will ensure that the name is changed. Also, isn't this another form of censoring?
Looks like it is going to filter out 90% of the internet. Good way to keep Muslims uninformed At this rate it will take a thousand years for Muslims to produce another Abdus Salam. Meanwhile the Jews, the Hindus, the Buddhists and the Christians will be progressing by leaps and bounds.
why the name "googling", can't muslims come up with there own name. just by name i don't wanna open it. u can't rip off everything that is famous. be creative and be famous!
It would be a lot beneficial if they develop an indigenous search engine. Google is very popular but it's genuine search results constitute only 13% of its page area. The rest are ads, meaning they are in a unique position to provide biased results to generate money. Ads apart, a Pakistani search engine that doesn't filter content would be awesome.
@someone: FYI, Krishna married those 16000 girls symbolically so that they are not ill treated in society as they were captive girls of a king he killed in a fight.
According to a source: Gopis, milkmaids from the life of young Krishna - who was a herdsman, are sometimes called his 16,000 wives. This mythology of Krishna love play with gopis is also described theologically as devotional worship of Krishna. The gopis risked to have relationship with him. It is also said he assumed 16,000 forms at the same time to be with all of them for love play
In addition: Krishna divides himself into several forms, one for each wife and spends the night with each wife simultaneously.... Each wife serves Krishna personally, worshipping him, bathing him, dressing him, fanning him, presenting him with gifts and flower garlands etc
Source: Junior wives of Krishna
Symbolism at its best, eh? :)
Is stealing content from other search engines halaal?
Interesting, but will it take off? Not sure Google will be impressed with being called HalalGOOGLING!?
pakistan fails to maintain top spot in porn viewing :)
HalalGoogling? Infringing on trademarks is not halal. This site won't last long as Google will take them down for trademark violations.
@ Lol
First of all make it clear that it is up to one's choice to use it or not. This type of website can be useful for children doing some assignments in school. No one requires a search engine to filter the content if at the first place he himself does not want to see it. It is a small step taken by some individual which will be improved over a period of time. And to answer your queries I would like to state that it would have been very decent if you didn't use the words so called Sharia law and alike. Although its apparent from your comments that you don't respect Islam, but at least when you are commenting on this forum you should have taken care of the sentiments of the people over here. There are thousand more places and forums where you can find people who are compatible with your thoughts. It would be very much better if you release your thoughts on those places because nobody would welcome you here; and indeed you are NOT welcome! Regarding to your query related to Prophet's (S.A.W) marriage, I would like to state that it's not necessary that what's immoral in your country is also immoral in my country or culture. In USA one state restricts the marriage at the age of 16 but the other state allows it. It depends upon the culture and the age when one reaches puberty. If you are from India I should mention that Polyandry is not allowed generally as per the law, however the cultural practices of Kinnaur, Toda, Kerala and Jaunsar Bawar allows it. So what about the people of those areas? Are they doing something immoral which their culture allows and I believe their local laws too. What my religion teaches me is that When you come across nonsense ignore it with dignity, for which I have tried my level best!
taliban is halal.
This is a very good step for Human race (excluding Muslims) . Why I am happy is It will bring Muslims thousands years back again . If an educated man types "Mechanism of sexual intercourse" or many more things which is banned by so called Saharia law , then he/she will get no results . By the way , a small question , if some one types Is child marriage in accordance to Islamic laws in this search engine , then ...? . Some will say No and some will say Yes citing Mohammad's reference . Then will start Jihad and we want this . Request all Islamic countries to implement this engine asap.
Do people in Pakistan know the difference between Search Engine and Meta Search Engine?
They are going to get sued by google :P
Or, I could just...you know.. stop searching for "porn" in google.
So all Science web-sites are out, since they all contain information on Evolution?
Will accessing this website by Ahmedis will be punishable for blasphemy?
@ Aditya Choudhary
You say it by yourself. Why to get ashamed of what your Lord did and making it illegal in your country? That's why we carved out our homeland because our ancestors knew that people with the state of mind like you wont let us live in peace. Hope you won't bother yourself next time commenting like this.
It will be interesting to see how many people actually use this system or other similar systems mentioned. After spending one year living and working in Pakistan for a Software Development company (I'm white British non Muslim) we did a survey of all the programs on each of the developers computers. 100% of all the computers used by the developers we found hardcore pornography on them found in web cache and I mean hardcore. So my personal feeling is that most will be using it for respect and integration of fellow Muslims yet behind closed doors it will be straight back to Google.
@amir: FYI, Krishna married those 16000 girls symbolically so that they are not ill treated in society as they were captive girls of a king he killed in a fight.Any way coming back on the topic, I don't think this "Halal" googling is going to work in the sense that most people in Islamic countries are in fact looking for "Haram" material.
Another wonderful project to follow the extremely successful Millat Facebook. Way to go developers!
dosent work. I could download pictures of sunny leone.
A search engine that doesn't search the internet -- yep it's a Muslim search engine.
Another Mashallaha Karyana and General store :D
Waiting for sunni googling until then I will use the usual google :)
If any one has any problem with this search engine please let it be known that google is not yet blocked....so stop criticising this thing just for the sake of criticism...as some people might not want to any unwanted suggestions to be appeared...and again google is there to serve ur urges....PEACE
@Abbas: I second you bro.
This is one step but we must block CDs, memory cards, Radio and Satellite transmissions too.
hope there is no fiqa at all
An effort that deserves admiration.
Hahahhaahaaaaa. Dude please not all the 1.5 billion Muslims on this planet want halal googling.
dumb idea and I was mocking it but it does work surprisingly well. Body parts and all were accessible, it appears to almost guess intent :)
@Aditya Choudhary It's about Islam dude. Please study it and then talk.
@Haris Chaudhry No, it won't do that. But what it might do is direct people like you to websites that call people to THINK and REFLECT. Maybe it might lead you to FINALLY accept that if you don't know about religion then don't talk about it.
It is a good idea, all the indians and liberals on the forum, you dont have to use it.
Well done to the developers.
Bad comments on a good job, what an irony? Chill guys, hold your hatred against Muslims and Islam.
Why filter all the fun stuff?
@Namaalom!:
Krishna was thousands of years ago mate! Probably you didn't care to notice that India doesn't 'permit' anymore Krishnas to be born. Last time i saw, many Muslims who couldn't feed themselves were trading wives in the name of being religiously puritanical. I guess that's a minor indiscretion in your cultural upbringing!
Oh i did notice your advice on search related to polygamy! Unfortunately for you, it came with a statutory warning that people having even an iota of neurons should not go there hence i gave up.Good for you that you shared your wonderful insight by going there and making your life more productive. :)
If all I can have is halal then life is not worth living.
I think the developers should encourage people to use this website to search pornographic content. This would enable them to learn new techniques to filter out the data.
And I would appreciate if we encourage the developers rather than just commenting that it's a dumb idea. At least realize that they are working on something positive which can be helpful towards the progression in their respective fields.
Basically it fetches the results from other 2 search engines and filters it on basis of some keywords or maybe the URLs are filtered and stored in the system. What is the big deal in this ? This cannot be more than an 5th Semester assignment for a computer science student.
@ Hong khan
May be you are too good in searching those things ... :) Anyways, a good effort. Should keep trying to make it or similar things more better.
@VM Now that's hillarious!
Great Work guys... It is first stone in building the block.. Many congrats to you for such an engine and All those who are against it, should not use it....
@Aditya Choudhary: the same way you type cow's milk and the engine replies..you can't have milk of you god, should respect others religion or can have this kind of replies..
Nothing new. Imhalal.com launched in sept 2009. Same thing i believe!
Some how someone save my country what on earth is happening
@True Indian I found many non-halal web sites. @The Paki! Use some of your brain cells my friend I found non-halal within 1 minute of trying this website.
@ Aditya Choudhary
No, it would redirect to a page where the details of polygamy is given. If you see then you would find that Muslims are instructed to Marry only one, if can't do the justice. Whereas, the same page also provide some details of the Krishna's 16,000 marriages. This is how this website works.
Search engine also bans searches on all things 'haram' including USA, Europe, India, Israel, Capitalism, other religions, science, genetics, philosophy, anthropology, western medicine and another 5300 topics of such ilk.
@ Aditya Choudhary
Actually, there are some special features designed in this web page which automatically detects that there is some one insane on this web page, hence automatically redirects it to the page where there is a complete detail of Lord Krishna's formal marriage to 16,100 girls rescued from the prison of demon of Narakasura.
Give it a try!!
Its good. It works...
A search engine does not automatically deliver objectionable conent unless a user specifically searches for it.
And whatever a user searches for is his own business and between him and God.
A real dumb idea
Well, I tried so many forbidden things and amazingly it works! Kudos to the developer.
Just a random thought: If the developer of this page extracts the keywords searched, it would be nothing except pornography and sex for few days.
Wait.. wasn't April 1st a few months back?
it is not a search engine .. search engine use its own algorithm to search contents from web.... it is a website that is using a search engine ... probably a final year undergraduate project ...
So while searching for a prospective bride on net, would the muslim boys be redirected to a link which has an option of 4 girls(according to islamic laws) or just 1?