The Advent of Religious Search Engines

Beetle B. writes "Do Google search results contradict your religious views? Tired of getting pornographic results and worried you'll burn in Hell for it? Are you Christian? Try SeekFind — 'a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible.' Muslim? Look no further: I'm Halal. Jewish? Jewogle is for you. NPR ran a story on the general trend of search engines cropping up to cater to certain religious communities. I wonder how many other 'filtered' search engines exist out there to cater to various groups (religious or otherwise) — not counting specialized searches (torrents, etc)."

Comments

Re:stupid people

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Having your information filtered against your will != choosing a filter for your information.

Right. The first is evil, the second is stupid.

Every time you use a search engine, you're filtering data, otherwise, it will just be a list of sites on the Internet

Excellent use of equivocation! I think the judges are definitely going to award this one a mark in the high eights, maybe even the low nines!

Obviously only an idiot or a shill would use the word "filter" to mean "filter out results that offend my cultural prejudices" and then flip to mean "filter out results that are completely unrelated to the object of my search".

So I'm curious: which are you?