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Google stands in solidarity with the tragedy in Nepal with strong support from technology. The Mountain View company has launched a Nepal missing person finder.
Person Finder: 2015 Nepal Earthquake allows family members to search for the missing affected while also showing communication. In this way they contact each other through the Internet.
That is to say, it is a panel for the disappeared that can be used to recover contact. Those affected can register by entering their name in the same way that users who want to search for them should only enter their name.
Google has enabled this tool in English, Hindi and Nepali to facilitate the search for people after the strong earthquake that has affected to the region.
Person Finder code is published even for developers as they can improve and use it. It also has options to export the lists, which are obviously public. For this reason, it is also warned that they could contain errors and not be exact information. Google is only in charge of its technology without providing information at any time.
This is not the first time that Google has launched a search engine in disasters
The company of the big G whenever a disaster occurs, no matter how small its dimension, enable a people search engine. We have already seen it on occasions like the earthquake in Chile during the past month or the Boston explosiontwo years ago, among others.
