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Dutch Journalist Group Launches Full-text Search Engine of WikiLeaks Cables

Follow up to WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, news via Computerworld of a new search engine, CableSearch.org, lets users search the disclosed cables by word, source, security classification, classification tag and date. CableSearch was the brainstorm of Henk Van Ess, chairman of VVOJ (Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten), or Association of Investigative Journalists, a Dutch-Flemish reporters’ group, and the co-founder of the European Center of Computer Assisted Reporting (ECCAR). In a Twitter message Thursday, Van Ess said the search engine was an “initiative of investigative reporters from eccar.org.”

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