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Hurricane Katrina: Yahoo Missing Person Search Across Sites

Yahoo now has a Katrina missing-person search engine that draws results from multiple sites including its own message boards,  ICRC, Craigslist, Gulf Coast News, NOLA.com, Public People Locator, MSNBC, Refugee Connect, Hurricane Help, Castpost Missing Persons, Operation Get-InTouch and CNN.

I knew this was in the works but wasn't sure when it actually would be usable. A big thank you to the people at Yahoo who gave up their holiday to make it work. 

Yahoo: Search Katrina lists from across the Web

Hurricane Katrina: Tagging

Efforts are underway to harness the vast amount of information being generated about Hurricane Katrina. If you are hosting sites providing critical information, please tag according to your purpose so your site and posts can be identified -- katrina and missing, safe, searching,  housing, survivor, food, jobs, volunteer, donate, collect, links, photos, reference, etc. If you see sites that aren't using tags, please encourage it -- not everyone knows what tags are or how to use them -- and/or link to them with the appropiate tags via sites like del.icio.us , furl , MyWeb2.0 Some blogging software converts categories to tags.