These are the names of search engines for the pure of heart. In other words, these engines are specifically designed to filter out any information or point of view that conflicts with the beliefs of the searcher, and delivers only material that agrees with their point of view. This is a way of protecting young people from dangerous content like, oh I don’t know, maybe the Earth is round, or Evolution is a real factor in the development of life, or women have value outside of the bed or home. Or that there is more than one religion in the world that might, just might, have some core values that are correct.Christians will get only arguments against gay marriage if they search for “gay marriage”, and a search for the “Democratic Party” yields first a site on Marxism. A quick look at I’mHalal on gay marriage got articles about the blasphemous nature of these marriages and statements that no Muslim could be involved in a gay marriage. Not surprisingly, Jewogle had the most liberal returns with some articles seemingly on both sides of the issue. Google returned lots of varying perspectives depending on what was entered.
So my point is this: Anyone that is afraid of new ideas that might contradict or even contravene their own ideas is moving in the direction of a dangerous Ideologue (Synonyms include crusader, fanatic, zealot and others) (2). This kind of thinking has led in the past and can lead in the future to unthinking racism that results in multiethnic clashes (recently remember the genocide in Rwanda, the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the genocide currently happening in the Sudan.) Could it happen here? Damn right it could. It already is. Evidence: Qur’an burning threat in Gainesville; Mosque building in NYC; periodic burning of “black” churches; desecration Jewish graves in cemeteries. Oh yes, it can happen here. You better be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
(Source material for this warning started with NPR and concluded with Google.)
1. http://www.seekfind.org/; http://www.jewogle.com/; www.imhalal.com/beta/
2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideologue
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129709336
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