Catholic Google name changed

January 19, 2009 · Posted in Everything else 

An update on a previous post about TSEFKACG (The Search Engine Formerly Known As CatholicGoogle): the site has changed branding – removing the Google color scheme and the name – and is now branded as Cathoogle (although the catholicgoogle.com URL still resolves there). (Thanks to the German-language fudder for the info)

I still have some qualms about the whole idea behind Cathoogle (censoring sites so that sites that that conform to your church’s ideology are preferenced), but that’s my bug, not theirs. Ultimately, I will be curious to see whether the search engine really gets a lot of traffic from Catholics, or whether they will use their own minds to sift through the available information.

And I should mention this is nothing against Catholics in that respect. I’d have similar troubles with Baptist Google or Mormon Google or Liberal Google or Conservative Google.

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  • richardbaxter
    The Chinese do it... not that I condone this kind of filtering - I currently believe, though I could be wrong, that if no opinions are suppressed the truth will become obvious (Eg Wikipedia).

    note I found your website by searching for google content violation. We all have standards on what we expect to find when searching for content, especially if safe search has been activated.

    I am looking forward to checking out the kind of filtering they are implementing.
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