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For malaysia airline flight 370. we searched with him through his computer joining what organizers say are 2 million volunteers poring over the digital images looking for the missing flight. >> it is important to search. >> reporter: it can be an arguous task. crowd sourcers are sharing a raft or maybe wings. the search area has been divided in sessions. each tile is roughly ten city blocks. the key is, if you see anything, wreckage, a raft, an object, you flag it. >> this is a real needle in a ...

And the response has been extraordina extraordinary. >> those are insane numbers. when you came up with the idea, how exactly it works. >> the website owned by and inspired by it last year. we aim to have people online and around the world helping to analyze the images. the digital globe operates the satellite in the world. thats great, but how does the information go? this needle in a haystack problem. they are hoping to solve the viewers and those at home right now. >> how does this work? if i...