Unlike funny doodles that Google does for important events, it has broken its own rule of an absolute pristine homepage to issue a Tsunami warning.. Google put a tsunami alert on its famously spartan homepage following the massive earthquake in Japan.
The Google homepage now carries a one line warning, alerting the geographies that may face Tsunami waves soon. It says, Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan.
A great initiative to provide information to users about the natural calamity. Also, like the New Zealand earthquake, Google has launched its person finder for Japan too. This helps people trace their missing loved ones by listing them on the Google website.
Google frequently makes mapping, communications and other online tools available after natural disasters but a news alert message on the Internet giant's home page is unusual.
Google launched a crisis response page following the earthquake at google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html.
It includes a "person finder" in English and Japanese which allows users to ask for information or provide information about individuals. It was tracking around 5,300 records at 1400 GMT.
The page also included emergency phone numbers and links to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and online disaster message boards in Japan.
It also featured videos of the quake submitted to Google-owned YouTube and a real-time feed of Twitter updates about the disaster.
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