Google’s Public Alerts are designed to bring you emergency alerts when and where they’re relevant to you, and AMBER Alerts aim to help bring abducted children home safely. Google recently launched a program that will allow AMBER alerts to show up in Google Maps, either on your desktop or mobile device.
If you’re using Google maps mobile or on a desktop, you’ll see an AMBER Alert if you “search for related information in a particular location where a child has recently been abducted and an alert was issued. You’ll also see an alert if you conduct a targeted search for the situation. By increasing the availability of these alerts through our services, we hope that more people will assist in the search for children featured in AMBER Alerts and that the rates of safe recovery will rise.”
More information available here.