So recently, both Slashdot and NPR had stories about ‘religious’ search engines. Now, my focus is music – politics and religion are not subjects I want to dive into on here. For the curious – I was raised Catholic – but just barely. My family never went to church but my mom did make me go to Sunday school for a year or two.  My mom said they were glad to see me go since I asked a lot of annoying (in other words – logical) questions. “Two animals of every kind on this boat? What did they eat? Enough water to flood the world? Where did the water go?” All I remember is that it was every other week so I’d always miss the 2nd part of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Currently, let’s just say my religious views are pretty much the same as Bill Maher’s.
But hey, this is from a marketing perspective. I want my mixes to be listened to no matter who you worship – allah, xenu, peaceful black jesus, hateful Pat Robertson jesus, etc.  So let’s see how I do on these search engines.
Jewogle – the Jewish search engine. Zero hits for Leroy Skibone or even just Skibone. Bah – you killed Christ – no house music for you. (My blashphemy is so severe that the site stopped working while I typed this post.)
SeekFind – the Christian search engine. Zero hits for Leroy Skibone. Bah. But there were 3 hits for ‘priests molesting boys’. (Yeah, might as well make everyone mad at me.)
ImHalal – the Muslim search engine. Asalaam alaikum! (Translation – Booyah!) ‘Leroy Skibone’ has results for my blog and torrents of mine on multiple sites! I guess that’s good karma returned to me for fully supporting their mosque / community center / whatever it is down the street from the World Trade Center site – although strangely enough, no one of importance has asked for my opinion.
I guess there’s no Scientology search engine yet – but they spend their time suing Google, not trying to imitate them.
