Israeli company launches kosher search engine Koogle - USATODAY.com

JERUSALEM — A new Internet search engine is making it possible for ultra-Orthodox Jews who use computers to obtain information online — but not on the Sabbath, when the site shuts down.

Dubbed Koogle (a cross between Google and kugel, the name of a Jewish noodle pudding), the Hebrew-language search engine is being touted as a kosher portal for devout Jews who almost universally shun the Internet because many online sites are religiously inappropriate...