Have you ever wondered what a company's URL might be, only to do a search and realize it is the company's name...wedged in between www and .com? Doph!
This shows how reliant we've become on search engines. And for good reason—as they become more powerful, Google, Yahoo and other search engines help us find the answer to most any question.
Google, the Internet search engine, has done something that law enforcement officials and their computer tools could not: Identify a man who died in an apparent hit-and-run accident 11 years ago in this small town outside Yakima.
Detective Pat Ditter of the Washington State Patrol searched with Google for about a week before identifying the victim as David Glen Lewis, 39, who died 1,606 miles from his home in Amarillo, Texas.
This is not the first time search engines have helped law enforcement officials. And I am willing to bet it won't be the last. Now I am not saying Google holds the answers to the universe. I am saying, "Google first, ask questions later."
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