Koogle is the name of a new Hebrew-language Internet search engine that allows surfing without getting drowned in sexually explicit and other offensive material. The brainchild of Yossi Altman, Koogle is a pun on the Jewish noodle pudding known as “kugel.”

The new search engine maybe a boon to the hareidi religious community, whose rabbis often ban the use of the Internet because of the accessibility to pornography. The new Koogle search engine filters out the unwanted items and even prevents a user from purchasing something online on the Sabbath, when business transactions are prohibited as part of the sanctification of the Day of Rest.

The site also does not allow buyers to purchase forbidden items, such as televisions.

Rabbis encouraged the development of the search engine in order to solve the problem of the hareidi religious community in Israel that often uses Internet cafes to surreptitiously surf.

"This is a kosher alternative for ultra-Orthodox Jews so that they may surf the Internet," Altman said. If you try to buy something on the Sabbath, it gets stuck and won't let you."

Koogle also was the brand name for a flavored peanut butter marketed by Kraft Foods in 1971 but later was discontinued.