Google helps Sendong victims find missing kin
MANILA, Philippines - People looking for friends and relatives who have gone missing because of tropical storm Sendong may find help from Internet tech giant Google.
Google has set up a Person Finder tool to locate people in the disaster-affected areas in Northern Mindanao and elsewhere.
The tool, which is in English and Filipino, also allows people to share information about people in the flooded communities.
To search information regarding a person, one only needs to enter a name in the tool and it will provide information based on records in database.
The tool was tracking 200 records of people as of Monday afternoon.
As of posting, the death toll from Sendong had reached 685 fatalities, with 82 people still missing according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
A total of 84 bodies found in the flooded areas have yet to be identified and claimed by their relatives.
Google also has a user-generated Crisis Map for Sendong, wherein people can share information regarding the disaster-stricken communities in the Visayas and Mindanao.
The crisis map has resources and links to data from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the Philippine Red Cross, shelters and evacuation facilities, donation centers, weather updates, and YouTube videos.
Google earlier created similar Person Finder and Crisis Map tools during the Japan earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear leak disaster.
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Isa kang HANGAL Pres. ABNOY!!!
SI PRESIDENTE ABNOY AY ISANG POWERFUL PUBLIC FIGURE. DAPAT NIYANG BIGYANG PANSIN ANG MGA NANGANGAILANGAN NG TULONG SA MINDANAO!!!
PRESIDENTE KA AT NAG ENJOY2x LANG SA SHOW NI VALERIE???
NANAWAGAN ANG SAMBAYANANG PILIPINO SA TULONG MO AT IKA'Y NAG PARTY2x LANG???
Pareho lang sa nangyari sa BUS HOSTAGE CRISIS!
Pareho din sa 5 Pinoys na nahatulan ng kamatayan sa CHINA!
Pagbibigay ng P5 Million pesos sa mga REbelde tulad ng MILF!
Pagbatikos sa mga kaaway sa Politica.
Nang dahil sa isang ABNORMAL NA PRESIDENT!
BALIW KA ABNOY!!!
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better look outside of your window!
NASA got it right and predicted an Ondoy-like rain will hit mindanao. however, despite of this warning from NASA, noynoy and his boys in PAGASA didn't even bother to monitor the typhoon. instead, it was confirmed that noynoy is busy attending valerie conception's party while parts of nothern mindanao is being struck by an ondoy like storm.
the worse thing about it is that PAGSA didn't raise the alarm in notherm mindanao. the officials there swears that they didn't receive warning from PAGASA. i can recall several typhoons where PAGASA got it all wrong and where noynoy and his boys from PAGASA is always caught unprepared by the typhoons that hit the country. the death toll may increase by the seconds, minutes, hours and days as
the numbers of missing persons were still in hundreds. it is more reliable to look outside of the window instead of relying to inaccurate weather forecasting from PAGASA.
i'm curious what Nilo will say about the boy of noynoy in PAGASA. wala na bang kapagasaasa ang PAGASA?