Using Google Earth to Search for Missing People

Slashdot had a post about using Google Earth to search for missing adventurer, Steve Fossett. Usually the imagery from Google Earth (and MS Virtual Earth) is several years old. However, the company that supplies imagery for Google Earth updated the imagery for the area on Monday. Amazon.com us using it’s Mechanical Turk service to accept submissions from Internet users who think they have spotted something.  According to Steve’s web site, they have already identified 3 previously uncharted aircraft wrecks.