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**AlexanderPalamayr** · 03-12-2012, 07:13 PM

What do you think is better,

OPTION 1 : A search engine for Islamic materials only. It filters results from all unislamic websites and you can add new Islamic websites to the database manually.

OPTION 2 : A search engine for the whole web that donates all its profit to Islamic charities. Unislamic websites may appear in results as all results will be borrowed from BING. Adult keywords will be banned and image, dictionary, video e.t.c search features are also available.

**hitaEtela** · 03-12-2012, 07:44 PM

Option 1 will be better

. In Islam, the ends do not justify the means.

**AlexanderPalamayr** · 03-12-2012, 08:03 PM

Option 1 will be better . In Islam, the ends do not justify the means.

But the search engine is not something haram in itself. It just has the potential to be user for haram. Just like the forum software we are using to run this forum, it could also be used for haram - does that make making such a software haram ?

**hitaEtela** · 03-12-2012, 08:30 PM

But the search engine is not something haram in itself. It just has the potential to be user for haram. Just like the forum software we are using to run this forum, it could also be used for haram - does that make making such a software haram ?

It would be a bad thing if the website is branded as "Islamic" but provides non-selective search results. The search engine is not haraam, yes, but if there exists an option where the haraam results can be removed, then that option should be taken.

**AlexanderPalamayr** · 03-12-2012, 08:33 PM

It would be a bad thing if the website is branded as "Islamic" but provides non-selective search results. The search engine is not haraam, yes, but if there exists an option where the haraam results can be removed, then that option should be taken.

It would be branded as a Muslim Charity Search Engine. The problem with other option is that it will only show results from "Islamic" websites that are manually added. No general results will be shown. It cannot be a replacement for Google e.t.c. While the second option is supposed to be a general search engine that gives its money to Islamic charities

**AlexanderPalamayr** · 03-13-2012, 04:03 PM

Bump.
Jazakallah Khair for voting.

**AlexanderPalamayr** · 03-13-2012, 08:33 PM

http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthrea...What-is-better
This same poll is being run on Ummah Forum as well, there it seems to be a tie =/

03-12-2012, 07:13 PM	#1
AlexanderPalamayr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	What is better ? What do you think is better, OPTION 1 : A search engine for Islamic materials only. It filters results from all unislamic websites and you can add new Islamic websites to the database manually. OPTION 2 : A search engine for the whole web that donates all its profit to Islamic charities. Unislamic websites may appear in results as all results will be borrowed from BING. Adult keywords will be banned and image, dictionary, video e.t.c search features are also available. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-12-2012, 07:44 PM	#2
hitaEtela Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 536 Senior Member	Option 1 will be better . In Islam, the ends do not justify the means. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-12-2012, 08:03 PM	#3
AlexanderPalamayr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	Option 1 will be better . In Islam, the ends do not justify the means. But the search engine is not something haram in itself. It just has the potential to be user for haram. Just like the forum software we are using to run this forum, it could also be used for haram - does that make making such a software haram ? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-12-2012, 08:30 PM	#4
hitaEtela Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 536 Senior Member	But the search engine is not something haram in itself. It just has the potential to be user for haram. Just like the forum software we are using to run this forum, it could also be used for haram - does that make making such a software haram ? It would be a bad thing if the website is branded as "Islamic" but provides non-selective search results. The search engine is not haraam, yes, but if there exists an option where the haraam results can be removed, then that option should be taken. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-12-2012, 08:33 PM	#5
AlexanderPalamayr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	It would be a bad thing if the website is branded as "Islamic" but provides non-selective search results. The search engine is not haraam, yes, but if there exists an option where the haraam results can be removed, then that option should be taken. It would be branded as a Muslim Charity Search Engine. The problem with other option is that it will only show results from "Islamic" websites that are manually added. No general results will be shown. It cannot be a replacement for Google e.t.c. While the second option is supposed to be a general search engine that gives its money to Islamic charities Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-13-2012, 04:03 PM	#6
AlexanderPalamayr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	Bump. Jazakallah Khair for voting. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-13-2012, 08:33 PM	#7
AlexanderPalamayr Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthrea...What-is-better This same poll is being run on Ummah Forum as well, there it seems to be a tie =/ Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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