How the web is helping Japan to weather the storm

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

But as it became clear it had not been one of the hundreds of insignificant tremors felt by the country every year they contacted Google.org, their employer’s philanthropic arm, to suggest it should get involved in the emergency response, as it had after recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand.

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