New Site Locates Sexual Offenders

The site was created by National Coalition of Victims in Action called “Family Watchdog.” It was started in 2005 by Steve Roddel. Steve started the site because he was tired of hearing about missing children who had been killed by registered sex offenders.

It is a nicely done site with a local map search powered by Google. Sexual offenders show up as colour dots, the colures indicate the type of crime committed.

The site is free and shows registered sex offender’s location in 44 different states.

If you would like to learn more or give your opinions on this site click here

MSN Search Responds

On Friday I posted in the GOS forum regarding Microsoft’s beating Google, their was also a lot of bloggers that posted about this in their blogs. It looks like Microsoft was surprised by all the attention and has responded on their blog.

“We are committed to building the world’s best search engine which helps you get your answers as quickly as possible – and we are excited to spend many years continuing to innovate on our customer’s behalf.”

“When you talk about basic web relevancy, our customers report that we’ve made some great progress over the past year, and I know that our research and engineering pipeline is overflowing with intriguing ideas that we will test and release as they’re ready.”

“…we won’t try to predict the progress of our competitors and so we won’t forecast when we might take the lead, but this is a long term game and we are committed to helping drive the next wave of innovation in search for our customers.”

Now they are saying they might take the lead. A big change from they will take the lead. Guess they got scared.