Specialized search engines

zdnetasia.com, Specialized search engines not 'Google killers', 27 Sep 2010 "Reza Sardeha, founder and CEO of Muslim search engine I'mHalal, said the site gets an average of 350,000 search queries daily compared with 10,000 six months ago."

Search engines

Allan Jacob, khaleejtimes.com, The Islamic way to a safe search, 15 Sep 2010

"The focus is to develop revolutionary new search technologies that solve search problems. ‘‘Alternative search engines are built for the great mass, which makes them extremely mainstream oriented, while search is mostly culturally biased. This means that search algorithms should calculate the culture, mindset and lifestyle of the user in the determination process of relevancy.’

"As for revenue, the search engine begins testing its advertising platform in two weeks with some high profile brand names. “We’re confident to hit a RPS(Revenue per 1,000 searches) of 1/5 of Google’s already in the first quarter of 2011.”."

'Religious Search Engines'

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Habiba Nosheen, NPR, Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results, 13 Sep 2010 "Some Jews, Muslims and Christians are abandoning Yahoo and Google and turning to search engines with results that meet their religious standards."

I'mHalal 1st anniversary

Joanne Bladd, arabianbusiness.com, World's first Islamic orientated search engine 'almost viral' "The founder of I’mHalal, the world’s first Islamic orientated search engine, has said the site is seeing an “almost viral” surge in traffic as it celebrates its first anniversary."

See I'mHalal

ImHalal

Times Online, Islamic search engine ImHalal hailed a success, 17 Sep 09 "The world’s first "Islamic orientated" internet search engine, which flags content that might be considered "haraam" – or forbidden – by Muslims, has been hailed a success by its creators after it attracted more than 500,000 users in its first two weeks on the web."

Previously blogged: ImHalal