Mumbai: Google has launched an application “Person Finder” to offer information on missing people in flood-affected areas in the country, including Uttarakhand.

Google Person Finder is a web application that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster, Google said in a blogpost.

The tool can help trace the missing people in flood-affected regions of Uttarakhand and is available in Hindi and English, it added.

All data entered into Google Person Finder is available to the public and searchable by anyone.

The programme also lets press agencies, non-governmental agencies and others contribute to the database and receive updates by using the Person Finder API based on the PFIF open standard.