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.

Stay tuned and Ramadan Mubarak/Kareem!

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

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