It’s amazing to see how integral search is in our lives, and what it can do in crisis.

On Saturday, Google launched a “people finder,” where users can search for people by name or contribute information to a database of information regarding people missing in the earthquake in Chile.  At the time of this post, 46,600 records are being indexed.

To access the Chile People Finder: http://www.google.com/relief/chileearthquake/

Google has a similar application to assist in the efforts in Haiti, which you can find here: http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/

Sincere hopes that these tools help as many people as possible, and kudos to Google for their contribution.