Google missing person search
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| Humanitarian aid | |
| languages | German, 83 more |
| operator | Google LLC ( more ) |
| Registration | No |
| programming language | python |
| On-line | 2010 |
| https://google.org/personfinder/global/home.html?lang=de | |
The Google Person Finder ( Engl. Google Person Finder ) is one of Google.org -provided online service that allows missing people after a natural disaster easier to find. Survivors, relatives and loved ones can search there for information about the respective condition and whereabouts or publish new information.
The service was in 2010 by some Google - developers after the earthquake in Haiti made public. The search for missing persons is now managed by the “Google Crisis Response Team”, which also has additional software solutions such as B. provides a map or satellite images of the disaster area.
Functions
Users can share a photo of the missing person on the Google platform and provide information about where they were last seen. The entry is updated as soon as another user reports that they have seen the missing person. The search is not permanently available, but is activated at Google's discretion for a certain period of time.
The Google Missing Person Search is written in the Python programming language and is hosted in the Google App Engine . It can also be integrated into other websites . The project is open source and the source code is available on GitHub .
The service uses the data standard "PFIF" published in 2005. This emerged after there was an unmanageable number of online databases that used incompatible input formats to search for missing persons after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina .
In 2011 there were more than 600,000 entries in the database. Facebook has developed a similar service with the Facebook Safety Check .
Previous missions
The next two missions, after the earthquake in Haiti, were in New Zealand after the February 2011 earthquake and three weeks later after the Tōhoku earthquake and the resulting tsunami in March 2011 in Japan. Even after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013 and after the massive earthquake in Nepal April 2015 that came missing persons employed.
criticism
The service was criticized in 2011 after false death records were placed in the system.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b google / personfinder: Person Finder is a searchable missing person database written in Python and hosted on App Engine. GitHub, accessed May 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Person Finder Help. In: support.google.com. Accessed August 23, 2016 .
- ^ David Goldman: Google's Person Finder came from '20% time '- Mar. 17, 2011. In: money.cnn.com. March 17, 2011, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
- ^ Google Crisis Response. (No longer available online.) In: google.org. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016 ; accessed on August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Carla Bleiker: Nepal: Searching for missing persons with Google and Co. Deutsche Welle , April 27, 2015, accessed on May 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Friends in the earthquake area: How Facebook and Google help in the search for missing persons , Der Spiegel , April 27, 2014, accessed on June 22, 2015
- ↑ Google Person Finder. In: google.org. Accessed August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ People Finder Interchange Format 1.0. In: zesty.ca. Accessed August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Prem Ramaswami: Google Crisis Response: a small team tackling big problems. Official Google Blog, March 4, 2011, accessed August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Facebook Safety Check. Facebook, accessed August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ David Meyer, Florian Kalenda: Google starts Person Finder after the tsunami in Japan. In: ZDNet.de . March 11, 2011, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Marcus Lütticke: Social networks help in times of crisis. Deutsche Welle, November 11, 2013, accessed on May 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Japan earthquake and tsunami: 'Sick' death messages falsely inform families. Mail Online, March 14, 2011, accessed on August 23, 2016 .