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Kosher Google Makes Debut as Koogle
Israel National News ^ | June 15, 2009 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Posted on 06/15/2009 3:38:50 AM PDT by Tzvi INN.com

Koogle is the name of a new Hebrew-language Internet search engine that allows surfing without getting drowned in sexually explicit and other offensive material. The brainchild of Yossi Altman, Koogle is a pun on the Jewish noodle pudding known as “kugel.”

The new search engine maybe a boon to the hareidi religious community, whose rabbis often ban the use of the Internet because of the accessibility to pornography.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: google; haredi; hareidi; hebrew; internet; israel; jewish; jews; koogle; kosher; language; orthodoxjews; orthodoxjudaism

1 posted on 06/15/2009 3:38:50 AM PDT by Tzvi INN.com
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To: Tzvi INN.com

By “other offensive material” I assume they are referring to the New York Times........


2 posted on 06/15/2009 3:45:39 AM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: Tzvi INN.com

Obviously they must filter out anything coming out of the White House.


3 posted on 06/15/2009 4:11:27 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Tzvi INN.com
without getting drowned in sexually explicit and other offensive material

I'd forgotten that this used to happen. But I guess Google cleaned it up, as it's been years since that garbage was routinely mixed in with the stuff I was actually looking for.

ML/NJ

4 posted on 06/15/2009 4:59:18 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Tzvi INN.com

A Kosher search engine! Yay!


5 posted on 06/15/2009 5:07:51 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: RoadTest

Trash and scum filters?
What a novel idea.
How do we sign up?


6 posted on 06/15/2009 5:32:52 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama as President is like hiring a mechanic who never saw a car before.)
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To: Iron Munro

“How do we sign up?”

I don’t know - they didn’t print a link. Here’s the newspaper’s link that revealed the site. israelnationalnews.com


7 posted on 06/15/2009 5:45:14 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Koogle search engine aims to make Internet kosher
The Palm Beach Post | 6-16-09 | Andrew Abramson
Posted on 06/16/2009 11:45:44 AM PDT by robert561
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2272934/posts


8 posted on 06/16/2009 3:27:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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