Website created to help find missing in Haiti

Published: 4:01PM Monday January 18, 2010 Source: ONE News

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A website has been set up to use the power of the internet to identify missing persons in quake devastated Haiti.

Haiti was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake last Wednesday killing over 30,000 people and leaving the capital of Port-au-Prince in ruins.

The damage is still un-measurable and people around the world are still desperately trying to contact loved ones.

The Extraordinaries have created a support page to try and help people locate and identify missing people.

The website allows people to sort through new photos coming out of Haiti and categorise them with keywords such as adult, child, alive or deceased.

The site also has a system that matched faces of missing people to faces in photos coming from Haiti. The goal of this is to help desperate families find their loves ones.

As images are tagged they are fed into the search engine which allows people to search through images taken post-earthquake in Haiti.

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