He says the search engine offered him content that he can trust would be appropriate for him as a practicing Muslim. “I do use it at home, at work and everywhere,” Benyounis says. Husain Benyounis, a 44-year-old Muslim man from New Zealand, starting using I’mHalal about eight months ago, and now he says he’s a fan. There is also Jewogle for Jews and I'mHalal, a Muslim search engine that started in the Netherlands. And if you type in “Democratic Party,” your first search result is a site on Marxism.īut SeekFind isn’t the only search engine carving a niche market among religious Internet users. If you search “gay marriage,” you would get results that argue against gay marriage. Houdmann says a search on his site would not turn up pornography. He says SeekFind is designed 'to promote what we believe to be biblical truth' and excludes sites that don't meet that standard. Shea Houdmann runs SeekFind, a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible. Some Jews, Muslims and Christians are abandoning Yahoo and Google and turning to search engines with results that meet their religious standards. In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet.
Faith-based search engines help Christians, Jews, and Muslims surf the Web according to their religious beliefs.
