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  • Reza Sardeha 14:05 on September 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Progress Lies Not In Enhancing What Is, But In Advancing Toward What Will Be 

    Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh,

    The revolution has turned one year old – I’mHalal went live on 1 September 2009 in the holy month of Ramadan”

    As the title of this blog post hints, I’mHalal still is a work in progress but we’re headed into the right direction.

    Exactly one year ago I’mHalal was launched as a project to provide the Muslim community a tool to explore the World Wide Web in a completely unique and more effective way. If we look back what we’ve achieved in just twelve months and how significantly I’mHalal has matured from “just a project” into a company, we can’t wait to enter our second year of development to solve the search problem Muslims have.

    Even though I’mHalal is primarily a search company, we are driven by a greater cause. Besides being an catalyst of innovation in the MENA and South East Asia region, our main mission; “to make the world a better place” remains one of our core focuses in the coming next years.

    “The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.”

    We strongly believe in the concept of moral progress. The number of companies with true moral values is decreasing quite significantly. Which is a shame. That’s why I’mHalal offers its expertise and resources to anyone that has a good idea or plan to make the world a better place. Progress doesn’t have to be a slow process.

    The overall search problem people from all over the world have hasn’t even been solved for 5%. Search is basically still in its infancy. I’mHalal is the relative small player in the search industry that’s going to solve a huge part of this problem by launching out of the box innovations in the coming next few years.

    Ps: Later today our CTO will post something about the technical future of I’mHalal search.

    With best regards,
    Reza Sardeha – CEO/Founder of I’mHalal

     

  • Reza Sardeha 13:41 on August 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: halalify, halalify.org, , webmasters   

    Halalify Your Website, The Internet, The World! 

    Assalamu Alaikum Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh,

    We are proud to announce we have launched a new initiative to Halalify the Internet!

    The web is a great place. It’s an open world where you can easily connect with fellow Muslims, find all information you can possibly desire for free and it’s just simply fun.

    There is only one downside though; an increasing number of Haram(explicit or immoral) content is generated on the web every single day. Our goal with Halalify.org is to make Halal content more accessible to the average Internet user by making it a lot easier to find relevant and high quality websites and content without having to bump into explicit websites all the time.

    We invite all webmasters that run a website to join our mission to make the Internet a better place by integrating the Halalify button on your website and join the movement by starting the Halalification of the Internet!

    You can find more information about the initiative here: http://halalify.org.

    Ps: our brothers and sisters in Pakistan need our help. Any donation helps:
    Islamic Relief Pakistan Flood Emergency Appeal

    Have a blessed Ramadan!
    The I’mHalal Team

     

    • ayra_j 10:59 on August 29, 2010 Permalink

      You have a good Ramadhan as well and keep up the good work.
      Salam

  • Fabian Tollenaar 03:18 on August 16, 2010 Permalink  

    Search issues 

    Assalamu Alaikum!

    As you might have noticed, we experienced a few problems today. Some searches resulted in cryptic error messages, and some searches didn’t return the results they should.
    We’re not yet sure about the cause of the problems, but we’ve worked hard to make ImHalal function as good as you’re used to. Everything works as it should again, and we’ll dig into the cause the coming days to prevent it from happening ever again!

    We apology for any inconveniences the issues may have caused.

    With best regards,

    Fabian Tollenaar
    Chief Technology Officer

     

  • Reza Sardeha 10:57 on July 28, 2010 Permalink
    Tags: , , search engine   

    Sneak Peek: Our Keyword and Content Based Advertising Platform! 

    Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh!

    We have exciting news to share today. We’ve been working for quite a long while on the world’s first keyword and content based advertising platform for the MENA & MEA region and we’re almost ready to accept private beta testers to our platform!

    Our advertising platform is currently being built by one of the inventors of search engine monetization: Ted Huffman and his team. Ted has been directly involved at Overture.com(Now owned by Yahoo), which was the first search engine back in the 90s with an advertising platform. With Ted’s help we’ve been able to develop a unique advertising platform that’s highly optimized for advertisers and publishers located in the MENA and MEA regions.

    We understand that every single city in the Middle East is different for example. In Riyad for the mindset of the people is completely different than in Tabuk. That’s why we have optimized our advertising platform per city instead of per country.

    Monetization is extremely important for any search engine out there. It allows us to to be able to fund our growth and expand our influence in the regions. That’s why we’re grateful that we’ve received so much support from various organizations, entrepreneurs, developers and of course our users to make it all possible.

    Even though we’re not even remotely where we eventually want to be we’re grateful for all the milestones that we’ve already accomplished.

    You, our loyal users that have bared with us from the begin when our search service wasn’t as good as it is today have made it all possible. Without you we wouldn’t have enough motivation and especially dedication to work so unbelievably hard on I’mHalal.

    Who thought a small player like us had a chance against one of the industry leaders like Yahoo and Google? But look where we are at the moment. We have a great service, a passionate mission to make the Web a better place, a almost virally expanding user base and anytime soon even an industry breaking advertising platform.

    Nothing is impossible, that’s the point I’m trying to make here.

    Ps: If you are interested to be one of the first companies testing our advertising platform in private beta please contact us.

    With best regards,
    Reza Sardeha
    CEO / CoFounder of ImHalal.com

     

    • Oman Holidays 05:52 on July 30, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations on such a nice idea and we look forward to more from you soon

    • impaviciliche 22:12 on August 2, 2010 Permalink

      Hello, you have made a great work, and I wanna thank you for it!

    • Mehboob 17:27 on August 3, 2010 Permalink

      InshAllah this will be the most popular and powerful search engine of all times,we salute all the team team involved in its development.

    • Musa Taha Bao 01:02 on August 10, 2010 Permalink

      assalamu alaykum brothers and sisters. baraka al-lahufikum to be so dedicated to builing up such a great web searcher machine. Anything that comes out from halal sources, never will be defeated, because al-lah becomes Himself the Greatest Protector and Manager of such important and noble project that you already started. ATLAST I CAN SEARCH FREE OUT OF TROUBLE ALL OVER THE PLACE; AND OF COURSE AND MOST IMPORTANT: MY YOUNG CHILDREN TOO!!: AL-LAH BLESS YOU ALL!!
      Musa Taha Bao

  • Fabian Tollenaar 01:48 on July 20, 2010 Permalink  

    New features 

    Assalamu Alaikum!

    You’re probably already used to it, but I’d like to talk about some of the latest features on ImHalal. In the past few weeks we’ve worked really hard to implement a reliabel system of Spell Check (of your queries) and Suggestions.

    Spell check is intented to help you when you make a Typo while searching. Just beneath the search bar, above the results, the suggested correction appears. Click on it and you’ll be directed to a search page looking for that term.

    In the right sidebar we’ve added a few related search suggestions for your search query. This is particularly useful way to navigate to just the website you were looking for. For instance, you’re looking for that one famous wedding planner, but can’t find his website. Since you’ve forgotten his name, you start by searching for ‘marriage’. Our suggestions on the right side help you out from there. Marriage will eventually take you to ‘marriage planner’ and there you’ll find what you were looking for!

    One feature which is absent on ImHalal, but heavily requested is SAYT (Suggest As You Type). The reason we haven’t implemented that yet is that we’re still finetuning the technology, to make sure no explicit queries are suggested. Just hang in there, we’ll feature that soon enough!

    Happy searching,

    Fabian

     

  • Reza Sardeha 13:53 on July 18, 2010 Permalink
    Tags: Award,   

    I’mHalal Has Won The “Best Halal Innovation” Award! 

    Assalamu Alaikum!

    A couple weeks ago I’mHalal has won the Best Halal Innovation Award at the prestigious World Halal Forum in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia!

    We know, we should have posted a blog post regarding this great achievement earlier but as you know and can see from the regular updates on ImHalal.com that we’re working extremely hard on I’mHalal.

    Quote from the HalalJournal.com:

    “This year’s Best Innovation award went to ImHalal.com, founded by Iranian-Kuwaiti brothers based in The Netherlands. ImHalal.com has revolutionised the search market for Muslims by coming up with the world’s first Islamic orientated search engine that uses a search algorithm to rate the relevancy of websites that is based on the culture, lifestyle and mindset of Muslims. It gives Muslims worldwide the chance to explore the internet without coming across immoral or pornographic content. ImHalal.com has been hailed a success after it attracted more than 3 million visitors in its first month of operation.”

    I’mHalal – Best Halal Innovation Award

    With best regards,
    The I’mHalal Team!

     

  • Fabian Tollenaar 14:39 on June 21, 2010 Permalink  

    Languages 

    Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh!

    As some of you might noticed, we launched public beta with a language select button, but it disappeared a few days later. We had some problems related to Internet Explorer, and decided to redesign the language select button.

    That button looks like something small and unimportant at first, but we noticed that the change of one little button can make a lot of difference, especially when it involves an important feature like different languages.

    We faced a particular hard problem: somebody who doesn’t speak English (the default language) might not know the meaning of “Select your language”, and thus he or she won’t know how to change the language. To solve it we came up with a very elegant solution (we think), by just showing a little flag in the footer. Anybody understands the link between language and a flag, and it isn’t “in the way” like a big fat button would be. After clicking on the flag a beautiful dialog pops up, and you’ll be able to select one of the five initial languages.

    If your language isn’t there, but you’d love it to be there, just let us know via feedback@imhalal.com. We’ll slowly be adding more languages, but these are the most important we figured. By the way, if you find an error in one of the translations, please let us know as well!

    With best regards,

    Fabian
    CTO at I’mHalal.com

     

    • NAZIF 23:20 on July 3, 2010 Permalink

      italia

    • muslim 22:55 on July 12, 2010 Permalink

      jizakom allah keer

    • ruba zakaria 10:45 on July 16, 2010 Permalink

      Salamu Alaikum..

      congrats for the launch of I”mHalal search engine! its great!

      May i suggest working with a fatwa website that answers questions related to Islamic banking and all financial aspects from sharia’h prespective? A friend sent me this link: http://www.minhajadvisory.com/en/index.php and its worth looking at.

      I wish you all the success

      Regards

  • Reza Sardeha 13:21 on June 19, 2010 Permalink  

    I’mHalal Public Beta – Already loving it? 

    Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh!

    Dear I’mHalal Beta Users!

    I hope you all are well. By now you’ve probably already have been able to play around with the latest I’mHalal version and we’re sure you’re already loving it!

    But we’re not there yet. This is just the start. The coming few days we’ll launch step by step new features to make it easier for you to explore the world wide web as accurately possible.

    A part of our team is currently in Malaysia attending the World Halal Forum and our CEO – Reza Sardeha will be speaking at the event about New Media.

    If you’re attending the event just contact us contact@imhalal.com to meet!

    Since we’re still Beta testing our search service, Feedback remains extremely important to us. If you think we should improve something or that a feature you really want is missing just contact us at feedback@imhalal.com.

    With best regards,
    The I’mHalal Team!

     

    • kar 05:04 on July 5, 2010 Permalink

      wow, a major leap after my last visits, seems like you’ve been keeping up with technology and UI friendly scenes. Very acceptable since it already on par with bing and google in terms of friendliness and cleanliness, compare to your previous page slider :P . Looking forward to API, pluggable search box and result counts . All the best.

  • admin 22:50 on June 7, 2010 Permalink  

    Just a Few More Days To Go Until Our Public Launch! 

    Assalamu Alaikum!

    As you might have noticed, we’ve updated our private beta login page. Probably the most eye-catching item is the big countdown. But; what exactly are we counting down to?

    As Reza already posted earlier, we’re launching I’mHalal in public beta in just a few days. To be exact, ImHalal.com will be available to the public from the 10th of June, midnight (GMT+1). We’re working really hard to tie up the latest loose ends and testing our various interfaces with our private beta users.

    Yes, I’mHalal will be available in three different versions. First of all, we’ll be releasing a greatly improved upgrade of our ‘regular’ layout. We’ve listened to our private beta users (many thanks for that!) and we’ve worked really hard to upgrade the interface based on their feedback. Next to that, we’ll be releasing a ‘light’ version. It’s a more basic interface, for everybody on dial-up connections. This version is optimized for speed.

    The third version is really interesting. We’re going mobile! We’ve optimized our technology for use over (slow) mobile connections, and we have spend a lot of time finding the right balance between lightweight, featured and useable (on small screens, FT) – and I think we’ve found it. You’ll love it!

    I don’t want to spoil the surprise by posting screenshots, so please hang on to the 10th. Just keep an eye on the countdown!

    How can you help us? Simply by spreading the word! Only with your help and support we’ll be able to shake-up the online landscape by representing and promoting the Islamic identity on the world wide web.

    With best regards,
    The I’mHalal Team!

     

    • cerita pertama 03:59 on June 8, 2010 Permalink

      Hm.. I`am looking forward for i`am halal public launching :)

      btw. does i`am halal have feeds and Search engine API??

    • faizan 22:18 on June 10, 2010 Permalink

      ASSALAM O ALLAIKUM

      I CONGURGULATE YOU AND ALL YOUR TEAM FOR YOUR EFFORTS

      GOD BLESS MUSLIMS

    • Fabian Tollenaar 14:18 on June 21, 2010 Permalink

      Assalam O Alaikum,
      We have no public API yet, but it’s in development. Can’t give you a release date though..

  • Reza Sardeha 13:09 on April 26, 2010 Permalink
    Tags: , I'mhalal Public Beta,   

    We’re Moving Into Public Beta! 

    Assalamu Alaikum!

    As you might have noticed we’ve really neglected our blog the past few weeks. Apologies for that but we’ve been extremely busy these days. I’mHalal has matured from just a random project into a business that aims to shake up the online landscape by offering internet users located in the Middle East and Asia a search service that is more relevant, pure and Islamic oriented than alternative search engines.

    We’re currently re-organizing our business operations and preparing to launch I’mHalal in public beta in just three weeks! Keep an close eye on I’mHalal the coming few weeks if you don’t want to miss the biggest innovation in the Middle East and Asia region!

    Goodbye Private Beta… You Will Be Missed!
    Thank you Private Beta users! You’ve all been extremely helpful to us. Every single one of you owns a part of ImHalal.com. From the first day of our soft launch we’ve mentioned I’mHalal is for the world wide Ummah and only with your help and support we can make a difference and realize a Islamic identity on the Net.

    Ps: We promise once we’ve launched in public beta we’ll update our blog more than once a week!

    With best regards,
    The I’mHalal Team!

     

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