Halalgoogling – The Muslim Way (The Only Way)

biko

Yes, now the Muslims can avail of googling the halal way.

Halalgoogling has a special filtering system that excludes Haram (forbidden) sites or content from the search results such as pornography, nudity, gay, lesbian, bisexual, gambling, anti-Islamic content or anything else that is Haram according to the Islamic law.

Read all about it on http://blog.halalgoogling.com/

GCU Flexible Demeanour

biko wrote: »

Read all about it on http://blog.halalgoogling.com/

Good idea, in principle. If ever someone brings out a version that filters out bullsh1t, I'll make it my homepage.

Nodin

biko wrote: »

Yes, now the Muslims can avail of googling the halal way.

Halalgoogling has a special filtering system that excludes Haram (forbidden) sites or content from the search results such as pornography, nudity, gay, lesbian, bisexual, gambling, anti-Islamic content or anything else that is Haram according to the Islamic law.

Read all about it on http://blog.halalgoogling.com/

There may be some muslims out there thinking theres nothing worthwhile on the internet at all.....

GCU Flexible Demeanour

Well, there's the recipes. Many of them don't involve ham.

Gordon

I typed "Mohammed jokes" and the first result was this: http://christwire.org/2010/04/mohammed-cartoons-jokes-that-make-this-christian-laugh-out-loud/

Brian Shanahan

GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »

Good idea, in principle. If ever someone brings out a version that filters out bullsh1t, I'll make it my homepage.

Well halalgoogling has that basic premise, unfortunately it got it backwards, instead of filtering it out, they serve it to you on a plate.

old_aussie

muslims together in one place.

old_aussie

Gordon wrote: »

I typed "Mohammed jokes" and the first result was this: http://christwire.org/2010/04/mohammed-cartoons-jokes-that-make-this-christian-laugh-out-loud/

I wonder if this is part of the "joke" that the author could not understand?


from the above link, The dancing Boys of Afghanistan
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/view/

Nodin

old_aussie wrote: »

muslims together in one place.

Whats that supposed to mean?

SebBerkovich

Clever idea alright.

Not sure i'd personally enjoy the internet as much if the stuff i hated wasn't there. I'd have nothing to complain about.

Sarky

There are dangers to filtering out everything you don't like. You'll get a lack of dissenting opinions, an inaccurate view of the world, and a sort of warped groupthink where there's no such thing as X because you can't find it when you look for it on a heavily filtered search engine.

Things like this won't improve any society that implements it.

Gordon

Sarky wrote: »

There are dangers to filtering out everything you don't like. You'll get a lack of dissenting opinions, an inaccurate view of the world, and a sort of warped groupthink where there's no such thing as X because you can't find it when you look for it on a heavily filtered search engine.

Things like this won't improve any society that implements it.

So no change then, considering its regarding religion.

Sarky

I think it'll make things much worse for the societies where it becomes the norm. Progress thrives on the introduction and mixing of ideas. The internet is easily the biggest melting pot of information and ideas the world will ever see. It has helped topple dictatorships, raise armies of activists and reveal hypocrisy and corruption across countless organisations.

Take away that and you're practically endorsing all the problems and injustices that free exchange of information has revealed and helped fight. It's probably the worst form of luddism I can think of.

Aswerty

Sarky wrote: »

I think it'll make things much worse for the societies where it becomes the norm. Progress thrives on the introduction and mixing of ideas. The internet is easily the biggest melting pot of information and ideas the world will ever see. It has helped topple dictatorships, raise armies of activists and reveal hypocrisy and corruption across countless organisations.

The following is worth a read if your not familiar with how Google already inflicts this on us: http://dontbubble.us/

I'm a software develop and these days when using google I don't even type in the name of my programming language when searching for things because Google generally already knows. Kind of scary if you think about it. As a search engine though it's still by far my favourite. This personl filter bubble can be good if you could see on each search what it was doing along with the opition of removing it.

Sarky

Aye, I'm aware that Google's been doing this. There's no malice intended, I mean who wouldn't want to be directed to things they like? I suspect, if your interests run broad enough, you might be able to compensate for the filtering effect a little. But yes, I'd f*cking love the option to turn off Google's filter bubble thing.

Hitchens

SADO-MASOCHISTIC BEST-seller ’50 Shades of Grey’ is popular reading among high-value detainees at Guantanamo, officials told a visiting congressional delegation.
“Rather than the Koran, the book that is requested most by the (Camp Seven detainees) is ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’” House Democrat Jim Moran said, in comments confirmed today by his spokeswoman. :pac:

Nodin

Hitchens wrote: »

SADO-MASOCHISTIC BEST-seller ’50 Shades of Grey’ is popular reading among high-value detainees at Guantanamo, officials told a visiting congressional delegation.
“Rather than the Koran, the book that is requested most by the (Camp Seven detainees) is ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’” House Democrat Jim Moran said, in comments confirmed today by his spokeswoman. :pac:

...and that unsourced snippet has what to do with the thread...?