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Juneau Borough & City property tax assessor.
Kenai Peninsula Borough property tax assessor.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough property tax assessor.

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Wonder what all the fuss and buzz is about surrounding Google’s new communication tool called Google Wave? This clever video attempts to explain some of Google Wave’s “killer app” potential in 2 minutes and 15 seconds.

Although Google Wave isn’t ready for public release yet, you can learn more about Google Wave on their site at Google Wave.

Here is a great mother and daughter reunion story that shows how online people search efforts can reunite a mother with her long lost daughter after almost 40 years —

A woman whose kids were taken from her by the East German Stasi secret police was recently reunited with one of them after nearly 4 decades.

Petra Hoffmann, now 55 years old, was reunited this week with her daughter Mandy Reinhardt, now 38 years old, for the first time since the East German Communist police seized her after she was born.

Mandy was born in 1971. Her father was a political dissident who had served prison time for speaking against life under the rule of Communist East Germany.

“The Youth Welfare people came to my door one day, said I was not a fit person to be a mother,” said Mrs Hoffmann.

“They put me and her into a home. Days later, against my will, Mandy was given up for adoption.”

After the Berlin wall fell she began the hunt for her children.

She hounded government authorities, put notices in newspapers, asked for help from old friends. But the Communist police had destroyed most of the paperwork and her search went nowhere.

However, six weeks ago, a letter came from Berlin to Petra which read: “You don’t know me at all, but I believe you are my mother.” Mandy had been searching for her mother since 1992 after her foster parents she was given to informed her that she was adopted.

Mandy had searched for her mother on the internet and wrote to government authorities for help, but ultimately found a plea that her mother had posted on a website, which led to the communication and recent reunion between the two.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

The latest search engine statistics from StatCounter show Microsoft’s Bing search engine losing US market share to Google search. Bing dropped 1.17 percent to 8.47 percent in September from a peak 9.64 percent share that Bing had in August.

However, Google’s search engine market share in the US rose from 77.83 percent in August to 80.12 percent in September.

Bing’ search drop is interesting in light of the search engine’s steadily climbing performance since it launched along with the new features Bing added to internet search like indexed Twitter tweets.

Google recently announced nine new search options to help users find what they are searching for, including: searching fresh information by past hour, date range, commercial sites, visited and not yet visited sites, books search, blog search and news search options.

Source: Top News.

Google has made some recent changes to help their search engine compete with the real-time search engines by adding search options that allow people to choose search results based on freshness and timeliness.

Today Google announced 9 new search options that allow users to refine their searches:

Past Hour and Date Range: Users can see the most recent results in the Google index, or get results from a specific date range. These search options will show you the freshest information or information that was released during a specific time period.

More Shopping Sites or Fewer Shopping Sites: Choose the “More shopping sites” option to show more commercial pages and product prices in Google’s search results. In addition, you can choose the “Fewer shopping sites” option to weed out many of the commercial search results.

Visited Pages or Not Yet Visited Pages: Find pages you’ve visited already by choosing the “Visited pages” option or remove the pages you’ve visited by choosing “not yet visited.” To use these options you must be signed in to a Google user account and have your web history enabled.

Books, Blogs and News: Choose these options when you want your Google Search results from one of these sources. Using these filters together, along with video, forum, and review options allows you to change between different source types directly from Google’s search results.

You can use the new search options yourself by doing a search on Google and clicking the “Show options” in the blue bar under the Google logo.

Source: Google

According to BBC News a High Court in the UK has approved an injunction that will be served through the Twitter social network.

The court order will be served against an anonymous Twitter user who posts on Twitter using the same name as a UK political blogger.

The court order requires the anonymous Tweeter to reveal their real identity and stop posing as Donal Blaney, who writes for his own blog called Blaney’s Blarney.

The order claims the anonymous Twitter user is violating the copyrights of Mr Blaney’s writing.

Blaney told BBC News that the opinions being posted anonymously to Twitter under his name are “mildly objectionable”.

Mr Blaney requested the court to serve the injunction through Twitter instead of dealin with the hassle of contacting Twitter headquarters and asking them to handle the issue.

UK law allows injunctions to be served by various electronic means including faxes and email.

Mr Blaney got the idea to use Twitter to serve the injunction after he heard about a recent legal case in Australia where a court order was served via the Facebook social network.

Mr. Blaney said he believes this to be the first time Twitter will be used to deliver a court order.

Source: BBC News

If you’ve been online for any amount of time, if you know your way around the Internet and are generally aware of how the system works, if you have established your online presence and left your mark behind, you would definitely be guilty of doing a vanity search at some point of time. And if you haven’t, well, all I can say is that you’re missing out on one of the simple and unexpected pleasures that the Internet offers.

A vanity search on Google or any other search engine throws up the names of sites that feature your name on the net – on online networking sites, as bylines if you’ve written articles or have your own blog, and elsewhere too. Of course, if you share the name of a celebrity, then you’re out of luck because you have to provide more detailed search terms if you want to filter your name from the millions of hits that a celebrity’s name is bound to return.

They’re called vanity searches, but very often, they help do much more than just feed your ego. When you search for your name online, you can see what others are saying about you, or if they’re talking about you at all. Sometimes the latter may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, because, as the saying goes, no news is akin to good news.

If people are talking about you, you better hope that it’s all good, because when it’s not flattering, you don’t have much of a chance at either retribution or rebuttal.

Because of the cloak of anonymity that it offers, the Internet is a place where you can slander people’s good names and more often than not, get away with it. So unless you wish and are prepared to see the matter through, to go to court and procure an order that forces service providers and web hosts to reveal the identity of the people who dragged your good name through the mud, you’re most likely left with no satisfactory course of retaliation.

Even otherwise, it’s good to keep track of what people are saying about you, especially if you tend to live life in the limelight and if your actions and people’s perception of them could cause inconveniences or hindrances in your life. A word of caution though – don’t take every random mention of your name to heart, whether good or bad. It’s just not worth it, not when there’s bound to be something new in a few days.

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This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of forensic scientist schools. Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson83@yahoo.com.

The 123People.com people search has been added to the Skipease main Free People Search page.

123People.com makes finding someone easy and is one of the web’s best people search engines at the moment. 123People can search for a person across social networks, people search sites, blogs and deep web public record searches.

123People searches for people on the top social networks like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other social networks. The 123People search also searches the person’s name on web search engines like Google and Bing.

In addition, 123People can search other online sources like pictures, blogs, MS Word documents etc. all from one people search engine.

Personas is a people search engine created by Aaron Zinman from MIT’s Media Lab. You search for your name or someone else’s name on Personas and the search engine searches the web for the context associated with it and returns a graphical profile of your online persona.

Taking someone’s name as input Personas then culls the web for information to characterize the person. Personas does this by associating the name with a set of categories created from a massive index of personal information. The search process is shown visually with each level of the processing search with the final search result showing a personal profile associated with the given name.

Personas shows the way the web sees someone’s name online. For people who have common names, the results will vary.

You can watch a demo of the Personas search engine on the YouTube video below or visit the site for yourself @ Personas.

Source: TechCrunch