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Koogle – Orthodox Jews Launch Kosher Search Engine Built on Google

Posted by John Saddington on Jun 15, 2009

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Google Custom Search Engines are all the rage and apparently a number of Orthodox Jews are taking the technology (and their theology) very seriously.

Koogle.co.il is now online and ready to accept your searches, but don’t expect to find any photographs of any women, any religiously-objectional content, and certainly anything close to pornographic. As one of the founders has said:

This is a kosher alternative for ultra-Orthodox Jews so that they may surf the Internet.

I applaud the interest in “keeping in clean,” but I personally wonder how well this will “stop” the young Hebrew boys from getting their Song of Solomon on (bad joke), and certainly Koogle can’t control the content linked from their results.

But purity and righteousness is worth it.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch. He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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4 Responses to “Koogle – Orthodox Jews Launch Kosher Search Engine Built on Google”

  1. Mikes
    Monday, June 15, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Honestly one good move to maybe one way or another stop or prevent pornography to go into the minds of the "searchers' especially if they're still young. I salute them for doing so. and yes, purity is worth it!

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  2. ZavRab
    Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7:59 am

    interesting article, but very short

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  3. arni web designer
    Friday, January 29, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    very intresting, thanks
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