Dictionaries – and Thesauri – Are Your Friends
As Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine fails pretty spectacularly to go anywhere fast, Google-haters should be delighted to hear there’s a new, ambitious search engine loose on the wild frontier of the internet, one whose founders are bound and determined to achieve total market domination.
The search engine is called “I’m Halal”, and it aims for global domination of the, yes, Muslim internet-browsing demographic. There’s an article here which details the background and goals of the project, which seem at first glance pretty straightforward.
I gotta say, though, in actual practice it’s a whole lot of fail. (Warning: Rest of post contains images that may be NSFW in ultraconservative environments, ’cause they contain very slightly naughty words in ’em, ‘kay?)
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