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Friends of Jim Gray and others who had been scanning satellite and aircraft imagery for clues to Jim Gray's whereabouts have decided to call it quits after no new clues have been found since he disappeared 3 weeks ago.

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If you've ever used a database and have a few minutes to spare, please help look for Jim Gray's missing vessel via the Amazon Mechanical Turk.

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Jim Gray is still missing. Coast Guard will continue the search over a much larger area. But they don't want private search parties to start off since they fear they'll end up having to "rescue the rescuers." Sergey Brin wants Google engineers to look for clues in the satellite imagery. The scale of the search is massive. Some of the computer models used in the search for him surely use the database features he invented.

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In this article on Jim Gray's disappearance, Gray's daughter Heather is quoted as saying:

Google engineers are also helping in search by looking at their Google Earth satellite photos for any signs of a boat in distress.

I didn't think that Google's satellite images got updated daily. I thought it was like a yearly process, no?

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