San Diego County has made available to the public a freely searchable mapping system that allows users to search for regional crimes in San Diego County. Users can search crimes by neighborhood, address, zip code, date and time. The crime mapping search collects information from all law enforcement agencies from all of San Diego County, […]
The AP is reporting on a gross government oversight by L.A. County. A 17 year old girl who was reunited with her biological father after 10 years is suing L.A. County for failing to use “due dilligence” to reunite them sooner. From the article — A teenage girl who had a much-celebrated reunion with her […]
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Prefound.com asks, why should users reinvent the wheel every time they query a search engine, and responds by creating a social search engine where collective human intelligence determines what results are included in a web search and where web sites rank in those results. Prefound.com is getting a lot of publicity lately for their cutting-edge […]
A sign of our modern Google times – a liberal Democrat writer gets ‘googled’ by her conservative Republican parents, only to have one of her old news articles come back to haunt her and ignite a family feud. When the writer mocked her Republican parents in an old news column, she never dreamed her mother […]
AZ Central has a great article on the growing popularity of “social search” engines that are created and edited by human users instead of computer algorithms and spiders. Many people believe that these social search engines return more relevant search results because they are edited by human users instead of ranking algorithms. From the article […]
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