The report and the transcripts were dumped onto a page, offering 35 links to PDFs, of which just two – the main report and the BBC's response – were computer-searchable and indexable.
In the past, defense lawyers have discovered that their computers were searchable by government agents, that the CIA could listen to attorney-client conversations in the courtroom, and that rooms where they meet with their clients at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility had all been wired for surveillance.
The company developed its own optical character recognition software to turn the type in headlines and product descriptions into searchable computer text, a Google spokesman said.
Their crowdfunding venture is characteristic: in the 1980s Flicks had one of the very first searchable computer databases, strongly rumoured to have been a formative influence on adopted Bristolian Col Needham, who went on to found IMDb.
"Memories are not neatly stored like files on a computer to create a searchable index," he says.
All the MP3 directories of all the uses online are stored in the Napster computer, and all are searchable.
The computer history leaves a searchable trail of what was asked, what was answered and the sequence of questions.
However, treatment offered outside the institutions that contribute to the EMR (eg, radiation therapy) may be available only from information scanned into the EMR system, which may not be readily searchable by computer algorithms if they contain non-text fields such as images.
After all, they let you jot notes, store webpages and contact information, while making all of that data electronically searchable on computers, phones and tablets.
The audio content is then tagged and organized in a way that computers understand, making it searchable.
