#google yolanda

Google Person Finder: Typhoon Yolanda has been launched in an effort to help Filipinos reconnect and get updates about their friends and loved ones after the super typhoon battered the country a few days ago. Google Person Finder is a web application that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster. At the time of writing, Google Person Finder is tracking about 15,200 records. For example, if you are searching for Joshua, send the message Search Joshua." In addition, Google's Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda Crisis and Relief Map is also available. It's a crowdsourced map of evacuation centers, crisis areas, and relief drop zone areas in relation to Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Read more in our articles including "Google launches Person Finder in Yolanda's aftermath" and "The day Google broke the Web".