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Google search finds a missing girl
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by mudricky | January 9, 2009 at 04:14 pm
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A child who went missing was found using GPS and Google Street View.
A nine-year-old girl, allegedly kidnapped by her grandmother, has been found using a mobile phone signal and Google Street View.
A police officer and a firefighter in Athol, Massachusetts, joined forces after authorities were alerted that Natalie Maltais had been taken.
Officers used GPS in the girl's mobile phone to find her approximate location.
They fed the co-ordinates into Google Street View, pinpointing a hotel where the child was subsequently found.
The alarm was raised after grandmother Rose Maltais picked up Natalie from the child's legal guardians for what was supposed to be a weekend away.
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at 16:27 on January 9th, 2009
There has been so much in the press about Google Street View lately. Glad to hear a story about it helping people.