2011年10月31日星期一

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Coordination between various health and relief facilities that spring up in a disaster zone can be challenging.Based on what we learned in Haiti, weve been working to develop Resource Finder, a new tool to help disseminate updated information about which services various health facilities offer. It provides a map with editable records to help relief workers maintain up-to-date information moncler alpes jacket green on the services, doctors, equipment and beds available at neighboring health facilities so that they can efficiently arrange patient transfers. We normally wouldnt release the tool so quickly, but decided to make an early release version of Resource Finder available for supporting relief efforts in Pakistan. This is the first time the tool is being launched during a disaster situation so well be working closely with NGOs to understand its usefulness and will iterate accordingly.Weve also launched Person Finder in both Urdu and English for this disaster. This application allows individuals to check and post on the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster. Fortunately, weve heard that missing persons has not been as concerning an issue as it was during the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, but well leave the application up regardless.Responding to a disaster of this scale is a daunting task, but we can all do something to help. We will try moncler alpes jacket white to do our part and continue working with the many incredible NGOs to develop tools that help them work more effectively.Posted by Ka-Ping Yee, Software Engineer, Google.org| We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China.(original post)Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement that we were no longer willing to censor results on Google.cn.We currently automatically redirect everyone using Google.cn to Google.com.hk, our Hong Kong search engine. This redirect, , has been working well for our users and for Google. However, its clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptableand that if we continue redirecting users our Internet Content Provider license will not be renewed (its up for renewal on June 30). Without an ICP license, we cant operate a commercial website like Google.cnso Google would effectively go dark in China.Thats a prospect dreaded by many of our Chinese users, who have been vocal about their desire to keep Google.cn alive. We have therefore been looking at possible alternatives, and instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google. moncler jacket green cn that links to Google.com.hkwhere users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page.Over the next few days well end the redirect entirely, taking all our Chinese users to our new landing pageand today we re-submitted our ICP license renewal application based on this approach.As a company we aspire to make information available to users everywhere, including China.

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