The Geek Church

If you’re keeping up on current world events , then you already know that another earthquake tragedy happened since the one in Haiti.  On Saturday, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the people of Chile and so far, three hundred lives were lost.  In light of this terrible event, Google has developed a way to provide hope and closure for survivors of the earthquake, their families and the families of those still missing or lost.

This means of hope is a new online service that functions similar to a search engine.  However, there is a difference with this new product since it also allows users to file and submit information as well as looking it up online.  The service is called Person Finder.  It allows people to do an online search for information about specific individuals by using their names and the option to submit information about persons of interest also exists.

Since Sunday morning, 22, 900 records on certain individuals have already been submitted.  However, the people at Google make it very clear that this new service will not be closely monitored and the information submitted will not be verified.  Essentially, the data for information searches or submissions is available in English and Spanish and primarily those who look up or give information are responsible for it.

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Google has not been wanting to Apple to put Google Voice on the iPhone, and yet it has it anyway.

Of course, you have to run Google Voice on the iPhone browser. You can add shortcuts to the home screen for SMS, Dialer, Inbox, and Contacts.

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There has been a recent rumor going around that Google is working on its own phone. It will sell directly through retailer, and should be out by early 2010. It probably won’t be built in-house, and it is rumored that it is HTC.

Supposedly, this new Google phone is not to be conused with the Dragon/Passion that the senior Google guys are testing out now.