Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

"By now, you may have read Danny Sullivan’s recent post: “Google: Bing is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results” and heard Microsoft’s response, “We do not copy Google's results.” However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google.

I’d like to give you some background and details of our experiments that lead us to understand just how Bing is using Google web search results.

It all started with tarsorrhaphy. Really. As it happens, tarsorrhaphy is a rare surgical procedure on eyelids. And in the summer of 2010, we were looking at the search results for an unusual misspelled query [torsorophy]. Google returned the correct spelling—tarsorrhaphy—along with results for the corrected query. At that time, Bing had no results for the misspelling. Later in the summer, Bing started returning our first result to their users without offering the spell correction (see screenshots below). This was very strange. How could they return our first result to their users without the correct spelling? Had they known the correct spelling, they could have returned several more relevant results for the corrected query." Read More

When Egypt turned off the internet

Egypt goes off the digital map as authorities unplug the country entirely from the internet ahead of protests.



"About a half-hour past midnight on Friday in Egypt, the internet went dead.

Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of president Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule, experts said.

Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the internet to try and silence dissent.

Experts say it is unlikely that what has happened in Egypt could happen in the United States because the US has numerous internet providers and ways of connecting to the internet. Co-ordinating a simultaneous shutdown would be a massive undertaking.

'It can't happen here' "

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Spokeo

my mom showed me this site a couple of weeks ago.

"Spokeo says that they’ve gathered this information from public documents, phone directories, social networks, marketing surveys, mailing lists, government censuses, real estate listings, and business websites. Which makes me even more upset about the times I’ve signed up for free stuff at the club thinking all I had to deal with was them sending me junk mail from time to time.

But yeah, if you are breathing, odds are your information is up on Spokeo. Of course they are a business and you have to sign-up and pay for their services, but just from typing in a name, there is plenty of information available for anyone looking fo’yo ass. I suggest that you delete yourself like I did. It may not change a whole lot, but it made me feel a little better." Read More

i paid the monthly fee and im getting my shit taken off. its mad cheap so go ahead and handle your business. Delete that shit!

p.s.
ive already looked u up ;)

Free! How DJs can Exploit the Digital Business Model

"Radiohead did it: they use free digital distribution to maximize their celebrity, and then monetize that with concerts and merchandise.

In the EDM community, Girl Talk has found great success by giving away his music for free.

So why not Pretty Lights? The Colorado-based sample artist has parlayed 800,000 downloads on his website from six LPs and EPs into a major festival presence. Just this year, he’s issued a trio of EPs, including his latest, “Glowing In the Darkest Night.” - Read More