Washington DC’s juvenile justice department is testing a criminal finder program that attaches GPS devices to the ankles of the young criminals that are released back into the city. The department has a contract with a company called Satellite Tracking of People to handle to criminal tracking system. Satellite Tracking of People is the same […]
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The US federal government now has a real time, Twitter-style search engine that allows people to find the most current government information. People can search for specific subjects, like “energy tax credit” or browse general topics like “agriculture” to find relevant government documents and blog postings from 144 federal departments. Just like on Twitter search, […]
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With a little time and effort you can do a successful people search for free. Someone recently asked me to find a person that they had lost contact with over 40 years ago. Making the people search more difficult was the fact that the person I was trying to find had a very common first […]
Google’s search engine has had a big year. Even with the rise in competition for people’s attention from Bing search and the Facebook social network, Google search has managed to reach a point where they are serving search results to over one billion people per week. That figure is almost one sixth of the world’s […]
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Last week the Bing search engine strengthened their commitment to social search by adding recommendations of people to follow on Twitter in their search results. When users search for a topic on Bing social, they now get a list of recommended Twitter users to follow for that topic. The Twitter user results appear on the […]
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