I heard about this on the stupendous NewsRadio a couple of days ago and thought at the time, isn't the web great, now it's saving people's lives! I have finally found a link to a story about how Google 'saved' the Australian hostage in Iraq. The SBS journo was kidnapped and used Google to verify his indentity and prove to his captors that he wasn't a spy.
Also, I thought I would sneak this in at the bottom of this post: If architects had to work like web designers. So accurate it hurts.
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