The Epitome Of A Bad Mother
Meet Talthina Jackson, yet another woman who deserves the title “F*cked Up Mother Of The YEAR” read on to understand why:A Cleveland mother facing multiple charges of child endangering and domestic violence will be in court Tuesday morning for her first pre-trial hearing. Talthina Jackson, 37, is accused of beating her 15-year-old son and abusing her 14-year-old son in their Crennell Avenue home.Jackson faces 12 counts of child endangering, felonious assault, domestic violence and aggravated menacing, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Spokesperson Ryan Miday. According to Miday, on Aug. 14, Jackson caught her 14-year-old son on a computer in her bedroom and thought he was stealing from her. She then hit him with her keys, choked him, hit him with an aerosol can and then hit him over the head with an iron.“Police were called to this home after a 14-year-old boy ran out of the house, bleeding and looking for help. He ran to a neighbor’s house and that neighbor called police,” assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor Jeffrey Schnatter said. The 15-year-old also has multiple scars over his body from being beat with a pole by Jackson, according to Miday. Jackson’s 8-month-old daughter was present during this incident, which resulted in another count of child endangering.
Please continue on this sh*t gets waaaay worse.
According to Miday, Jackson’s 14-year-old son was abused from January to August. Reports said Jackson locked her 14-year old son in his bedroom for so long he had to urinate out of the bedroom window and defecated in the closet, for fear of being hit for leaving the room. When Jackson came into the room and discovered the feces, she made him eat it and gave him a plastic bag to vomit. In another incident, prosecutors said she thought the boy had urinated on plastic that was laid out to paint, so she made him lick it up. Miday said it was actually cat urine.Another time, Jackson got angry at the boy for feeding the cats before her, so she made him eat the rest of the cat food. He vomited in a bowl, which she made him eat as well, according to Schnatter. Jackson was arraigned on Sept. 8 and is now free on $35,000 bond. Jackson’s two teenaged sons and her 8-month-old daughter are now in foster care.
WTF?!?! Those boys should’ve tag-teamed that b*tch and locked her a$$ in the closet until the cops came. This story is truly and utterly disgusting. We hope these kids can move on and understand that their mother was a sick individual.
The Epitome Of A Bad Mother
Meet Talthina Jackson, yet another woman who deserves the title “F*cked Up Mother Of The YEAR” read on to understand why:
A Cleveland mother facing multiple charges of child endangering and domestic violence will be in court Tuesday morning for her first pre-trial hearing. Talthina Jackson, 37, is accused of beating her 15-year-old son and abusing her 14-year-old son in their Crennell Avenue home.Jackson faces 12 counts of child endangering, felonious assault, domestic violence and aggravated menacing, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Spokesperson Ryan Miday. According to Miday, on Aug. 14, Jackson caught her 14-year-old son on a computer in her bedroom and thought he was stealing from her. She then hit him with her keys, choked him, hit him with an aerosol can and then hit him over the head with an iron.“Police were called to this home after a 14-year-old boy ran out of the house, bleeding and looking for help. He ran to a neighbor’s house and that neighbor called police,” assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor Jeffrey Schnatter said. The 15-year-old also has multiple scars over his body from being beat with a pole by Jackson, according to Miday. Jackson’s 8-month-old daughter was present during this incident, which resulted in another count of child endangering.
Please continue on this sh*t gets waaaay worse.
According to Miday, Jackson’s 14-year-old son was abused from January to August. Reports said Jackson locked her 14-year old son in his bedroom for so long he had to urinate out of the bedroom window and defecated in the closet, for fear of being hit for leaving the room. When Jackson came into the room and discovered the feces, she made him eat it and gave him a plastic bag to vomit. In another incident, prosecutors said she thought the boy had urinated on plastic that was laid out to paint, so she made him lick it up. Miday said it was actually cat urine.
Another time, Jackson got angry at the boy for feeding the cats before her, so she made him eat the rest of the cat food. He vomited in a bowl, which she made him eat as well, according to Schnatter. Jackson was arraigned on Sept. 8 and is now free on $35,000 bond. Jackson’s two teenaged sons and her 8-month-old daughter are now in foster care.
Scientists Study the Ubiquitous 'Booty Call'
Men Get Free Sex and Women Get Some Commitment, But Often Disappointment
Remembering the good time she'd had with the green-eyed young man, Andrea picked up her cell phone and texted, "Let's meet up" -- for sex, that is.
"A lot of girls see the booty call as a no-pressure way to have fun with someone you may be interested in," said Andrea, a future horticulturist at the San Luis Obispo campus. "I guess it was my way of saying I had a good time and I'd like to see him again."
"The call comes late at night and it's usually on the weekend," she said. "Your booty call is usually someone you know."
Availability of cell phones, texting and instant messaging have all shaped the mating rituals of late teens and 20-somethings, but none more so than the ubiquitous "booty call."
And now, its dynamics are getting a scientific look.
Just this month, South Alabama psychologist Peter K. Jonason published a study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sex Research: "Positioning the Booty-Call Relationship on the Spectrum of Relationships: Sexual but More Emotional Than One-Night Stands."
Todays DUMBASSNESS!!!
Man Arrested For Returning Stolen Money To Bank...He Robbed [Video]
Man Arrested For Returning Stolen Money To Bank...He Robbed
A man in Charlotte, North Carolina was arrested after returning stolen
money to a bank…that he robbed.
According to published reports, Everette Edgeworth was apprehended
by police when he tried to return the money to the Fifth Third bank he'd
robbed earlier in the day.
Relatives of Edgeworth state that the alleged robber is
"scared to death of prison" and hasn't been the same since he
was released over a year and a half ago. The relatives also explained that bringing the money back was likely his way of trying to avoid returning again.
Although Edgeworth may have thought he had a “get out of jail free”
card with his gesture, police state that good intentions after the fact doesn't mean you can take the crime itself back and they place Edgeworth back in jail.
Family members state that the robbery was driven by the pressure of having no money, nobody in his life and nowhere to go. They also state Edgeworth has been trying hard to find a job but nobody would hire him.
Edgeworth is charged with bank robbery and if convicted, he could receive a sentence of 20 years in prison.
Check out the video:
1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution
NEW YORK – Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.Users of the website and its CEO grouse that the Internet and other media are still full of outlets where people can find prostitutes. As for the massive online classifieds site itself, many of the personal ads that remain on the site appear to be thinly veiled solicitations of sex for sale.State attorneys general had pressed Craigslist to do more to block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution, and hailed the company's decision to take down its adult services section on Saturday. But like other illegal online activities targeted with prosecution or lawsuits, including gambling, child pornography and unauthorized music downloads, shutting down one outlet simply sends many users running to others.John Palfrey, a Harvard University law professor and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said the move from Craigslist was still a victory because it moved the ads off a highly visible location."Will people be able to find these ads online? The answer is almost certainly," he said. "Will they be able to find these on legitimate sites? I think the answer is probably not."It's unclear if the shutdown is permanent; a black bar reading "censored" remained in place on the company's U.S. pages late Sunday. Erotic services ads on non-U.S. sites were still active. Neither Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster nor a company spokeswoman responded to e-mails and phone calls seeking comment on Sunday.Craigslist had tried to police the postings on its adult services page by requiring all the ads to be vetted and approved. The section carried ads for a variety of erotic services, including personal massages and a night's companionship, which critics say veered into prostitution.As Craigslist users complained in postings Sunday, some rattled off the names of other sites where they could find the same services.
THE WAR IS OVER! President Obama Announces The End Of ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ [Video]
People of the world rejoice! The War In Iraq is officially over. In an announcement that seemed to come out of nowhere, President Obama has decided to change the focus from freeing the sovereign nation of Iraq to saving the depressed nation of America.
WASHINGTON — Saying it was time to “turn the page,” President Obama declared the end of combat operations in Iraq last night as he vowed to focus his efforts now on the home front’s economy.“So tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country,” Obama said.Addressing the nation in prime time from the Oval Office, Obama — who had staunchly opposed the war before becoming president — lauded the troops and saluted their accomplishments.“The Americans who have served in Iraq completed every mission they were given. They defeated a regime that had terrorized its people. Together with Iraqis and coalition partners who made huge sacrifices of their own, our troops fought block by block to help Iraq seize the chance for a better future,” he said.Obama said the United States “has paid a huge price” to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future — a cost that now includes more than 4,400 troops dead, tens of thousands more wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars spent.
This sounds like great news for soldiers, their families and the people of Iraq, but the “victory” seems bittersweet. Was it a victory? Hopefully, the people of Iraq will be able to successfully rebuild their nation and have peace. Being a Veteran myself I want our troops to come home 10 years has been too long! I hope it all happens quickly and peacfully. Just sayin'
1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution
NEW YORK – Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.
Users of the website and its CEO grouse that the Internet and other media are still full of outlets where people can find prostitutes. As for the massive online classifieds site itself, many of the personal ads that remain on the site appear to be thinly veiled solicitations of sex for sale.
State attorneys general had pressed Craigslist to do more to block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution, and hailed the company's decision to take down its adult services section on Saturday. But like other illegal online activities targeted with prosecution or lawsuits, including gambling, child pornography and unauthorized music downloads, shutting down one outlet simply sends many users running to others.
John Palfrey, a Harvard University law professor and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said the move from Craigslist was still a victory because it moved the ads off a highly visible location.
"Will people be able to find these ads online? The answer is almost certainly," he said. "Will they be able to find these on legitimate sites? I think the answer is probably not."
It's unclear if the shutdown is permanent; a black bar reading "censored" remained in place on the company's U.S. pages late Sunday. Erotic services ads on non-U.S. sites were still active. Neither Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster nor a company spokeswoman responded to e-mails and phone calls seeking comment on Sunday.
Craigslist had tried to police the postings on its adult services page by requiring all the ads to be vetted and approved. The section carried ads for a variety of erotic services, including personal massages and a night's companionship, which critics say veered into prostitution.
As Craigslist users complained in postings Sunday, some rattled off the names of other sites where they could find the same services.
People of the world rejoice! The War In Iraq is officially over. In an announcement that seemed to come out of nowhere, President Obama has decided to change the focus from freeing the sovereign nation of Iraq to saving the depressed nation of America.
WASHINGTON — Saying it was time to “turn the page,” President Obama declared the end of combat operations in Iraq last night as he vowed to focus his efforts now on the home front’s economy.“So tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country,” Obama said.Addressing the nation in prime time from the Oval Office, Obama — who had staunchly opposed the war before becoming president — lauded the troops and saluted their accomplishments.“The Americans who have served in Iraq completed every mission they were given. They defeated a regime that had terrorized its people. Together with Iraqis and coalition partners who made huge sacrifices of their own, our troops fought block by block to help Iraq seize the chance for a better future,” he said.Obama said the United States “has paid a huge price” to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future — a cost that now includes more than 4,400 troops dead, tens of thousands more wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars spent.
This sounds like great news for soldiers, their families and the people of Iraq, but the “victory” seems bittersweet. Was it a victory? Hopefully, the people of Iraq will be able to successfully rebuild their nation and have peace. Being a Veteran myself I want our troops to come home 10 years has been too long! I hope it all happens quickly and peacfully. Just sayin'
Google Shakes It Up Again With Free Phone Calls
Google just loves upsetting the apple cart. It shook up Web searching and advertising. It shook up free Web-based e-mail services when Gmail offered gigabytes of free storage rather than a few megabytes. It shook up the way companies go public.
The latest development is particularly shakeworthy: Google now lets you make free phone calls from your computer. It isn’t new fellow geeks who have installed Skype or iChat and use special handles” like SkiBunny1968–but it will be to normal people, on regular American and Canadian phone numbers.
The new feature, clunkily called Voice Calls from Gmail, was released yesterday. It’s tied into Google’s Gmail service. You need a Gmail account to make it work, and the dialer seamlessly incorporates your Gmail address book. That makes it very easy to call someone, because you type only a couple letters of the name and then press Enter.
I guess you could put on a headset to make this kind of call, but the truth is, your laptop’s built-in speaker and microphone work beautifully. Sound quality is very good. The delay is just under a second, like a cellphone call.
Calls to American and Canadian phone numbers are free (That is fun to type!). Calls to other countries are very cheap–usually 2 cents a minute to landlines, 15 cents to cellphones. (The complete list of countries and rates is here: https://www.google.com/voice/rates.) The idea, clearly, is that Google will make enough money from the overseas calls to make the domestic ones free.
If you have a free Google Voice account too, then you can get incoming calls, too. A little box pops up to let you know that somebody’s calling you. If you answer at your computer, you can even press the * key on the on-screen keyboard to transfer the call to another phone, like your cellphone, so you can hit the road without skipping a word.
(If you don’t have a Google Voice account, you can’t get incoming calls. And whenever you place an outgoing call, the recipient sees the mystifying phone number 760-705-8888 on the Caller ID screen. Calling that number produces only a recording.)
All right. So why is this such a big deal?
Because it’s increasingly clear that one day, the Internet, not the outrageous cellphone companies, will connect our calls. The ultimate, of course, would be free calls from a phone, to a phone. But until now, all we’ve been able to do is dance around that concept.
For example, chat programs let you make free calls, computer-to-computer. Skype lets you make free calls from your cellphone, but not to regular phone numbers. Skype and Line2 let you make calls from your cellphone (when you’re in a 3G area or WiFi), to actual phone numbers–but not for free.
What Voice Calls from Gmail does is opens up another variation, one that strikes even closer to the “free calls from a phone, to a phone” ideal. Now it’s free calls “from a computer, to a phone.”
At the moment, you can’t use this new feature until you download and install a special plug-in for Mac or Windows. But you can’t help wondering: What if Google released an app like that for Android phones, or the iPhone?
At the moment, you can’t use this new feature until you download and install a special plug-in for Mac or Windows. But you can’t help wondering: What if Google released an app like that for Android phones, or the iPhone?
Well, I’ll tell you what. At that point, you could, for the first time in history, make unlimited free phone-to-phone calls.
We’re tantalizingly close.
That development would cause conniptions at the cellphone companies, that’s for sure. It would completely change the game. It would remove the final fine print, the last obstacles, that separate us from the Internet-as-phone-company paradise that almost certainly awaits us.
RIP, Yahoo Search: Why I'm Not Shedding a Tear
It's official: Yahoo's search results in the U.S. and Canada are now fully powered by Microsoft's Bing. The announcement came on Tuesday, a little more than a year after the two tech powerhouses agreed to combine search forces in order to compete with Google. And while many are lamenting the passing of Yahoo Search, one of the Internet's true originals, I'm not among them. Here are three reasons why I think Yahoo Search had to go.
Yahoo: The Great-Granddaddy of Web Search
Yahoo was launched way back in 1994 as a human-powered search site. Forget spiders and search algorithms: Yahoo, in its first iteration, was basically a list of hand-picked Web links, organized into categories. You had to drill down through the categories in order to find the information you were looking for -- and you often found it complete with a written description of the site you were about to visit.
The process was slow and while it was thorough -- for a time -- it quickly became apparent that trying to keep track of the explosion of Web sites was a job for which no mere mortal was equipped. A computer, or better yet, an army of computers, was needed instead.
Yahoo tried to adapt, inking deals with Inktomi, Overture, and even Google, but the once-mighty site lost ground as more and more Web users went gaga for Google. In the years since, Yahoo has been unable to shed its old-fashioned image. People fondly recall Yahoo's days as a dominant search provider, but they do so while typing search queries into Google.
Yahoo and Bing Together: Better Equipped to Battle Google
Even if you combine their market share, Yahoo and Bing cannot truly rival Google's dominance of the search market.
Google controls an estimated 66 percent of the search market, while Yahoo and Bing combined serve up approximately 28 percent of Web searches, according to numbers quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
Still, working together gives Yahoo and Microsoft a stronger platform to rival Google -- and Google does need a rival. Microsoft, especially, should know a thing or two about how your products (ahem, Windows Vista, ahem) can suffer when you don't have a rival spurring you on to bigger and better things.
Yahoo and Bing: Separate, but Equal
Several commenters on Yahoo's Search blog have wondered why they should bother searching at Yahoo now that the site is delivering the same results as Bing. Why not, they ask, just head to Bing.com instead? I know one reason: the interface. Searching at Yahoo remains a markedly different experience than visiting Bing.com if only for the interface alone.
I can browse through Yahoo's home page, reading news stories that interest me, before typing my search query in the search bar. (Click on the images for a full-screen view.)
And when I get my search results, I can take advantage of Yahoo's streamlined results page, and I can also enjoy my favorite Yahoo feature: the ability to filter out sources of content using the handy tabs that automatically appear on the left side of my search results.
I also understand that some people prefer Bing's direct-to-search approach. Those users can head over to Bing.com and get almost the same search results without navigating through Yahoo's portal first.
What do you think? Is the Yahoo-Bing deal a good thing for the search market? Or is this a sign of the Internet apocalypse? Sound off in the comments.
WOW: Google to Launch a New Version of Google Search
Google has a giant target on its back. Microsoft has been on a spending and deal-making spree to grow Bing, recently signing a huge search deal with Yahoo. And with Bing starting to steal some market share from Google, it’s proving to be a formidable opponent. Oh, and now you can’t count out Facebook either, which just launched a new realtime search engine.Google’s not taking any of this lying down. Secretly, they’ve been working on a new project: the next generation of Google Search. This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of Google.
The project’s still under construction, but Google’s now confident enough in the new version of its search engine that it has released the development version for public consumption. While you won’t see too many differences immediately, let us assure you: it’s a completely upgraded Google search.Google specifically states that its goal for the new version of Google Search is to improve its indexing speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness. Here’s what they wrote:“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.”
Trying Out the New Search
We just tried out the the new version of Google, and we will say this: the results are different. Let’s compare, using the keyword “Mashable” as a reference point.First, the current version of Google:
And the new version of Google Search:
Conclusion: This search is not only faster, but in some instances in our few tests, seems more capable of producing real-time results. It’s still way too early to make any definitive conclusions about this new search, but we will test it out thoroughly and give you a full report soon. In the meantime, try it out for yourself and tell us what you think.For more Social Media coverage:
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Google has a giant target on its back. Microsoft has been on a spending and deal-making spree to grow Bing, recently signing a huge search deal with Yahoo. And with Bing starting to steal some market share from Google, it’s proving to be a formidable opponent. Oh, and now you can’t count out Facebook either, which just launched a new realtime search engine.
Google’s not taking any of this lying down. Secretly, they’ve been working on a new project: the next generation of Google Search. This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of Google.
The project’s still under construction, but Google’s now confident enough in the new version of its search engine that it has released the development version for public consumption. While you won’t see too many differences immediately, let us assure you: it’s a completely upgraded Google search.
The project’s still under construction, but Google’s now confident enough in the new version of its search engine that it has released the development version for public consumption. While you won’t see too many differences immediately, let us assure you: it’s a completely upgraded Google search.
Google specifically states that its goal for the new version of Google Search is to improve its indexing speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness. Here’s what they wrote:
“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.”
Trying Out the New Search
We just tried out the the new version of Google, and we will say this: the results are different. Let’s compare, using the keyword “Mashable” as a reference point.
First, the current version of Google:
And the new version of Google Search:
Conclusion: This search is not only faster, but in some instances in our few tests, seems more capable of producing real-time results. It’s still way too early to make any definitive conclusions about this new search, but we will test it out thoroughly and give you a full report soon. In the meantime, try it out for yourself and tell us what you think.
For more Social Media coverage:
- Follow Mashable Social Media
- Subscribe to the Social Media channel
- Become a Fan on Facebook
- Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad
MORE STORIES IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google
Did you hear? Google’s launching a new, upgraded version of its search engine soon. And just as important, the search giant released the developer’s preview of it today. Google promises that the new search tool (codename “Caffeine”) will improve the speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness of Google search.While the developer version is a pre-beta release, it’s completely usable. Thus, we’ve decided to put the new Google search through the wringer. We took the developer version for a spin and compared it to not only the current version ofGoogle Search, but to Bing as well.
The categories we tested the new search engine on are as follows: speed, accuracy, temporal relevancy, and index size. Here’s how we define those:
Speed: How fast can the new search engine load results?Accuracy: Which set of results is more accurate to the search term?Temporal Relevancy: Is one version of search better at capturing breaking news?Index Size: Is it really more comprehensive than the last version of Google?
So without further ado, here’s the test:
1. Speed
The first category is incredibly important. How fast do these Google search results come at you anyway? Even a tenth of a second can mean millions for the search company as the longer it takes the load, the more likely someone will go look for results somewhere else.
So how fast is the new search? Lightning fast. As you probably know, Google tells you how long it takes to load results. We tried a few search terms, starting with “Dog.” Here’s the speed result:
Compare that to the original Google search:
0.12 vs. 0.25 seconds? They doubled the speed! That’s tremendous. We tried it with a variety of search terms (“The end of the universe is not here,” “There is no way that you cannot find ben parr. He is hiding back behind the tv,” “FriendFeed,” etc.), and in every instance, the new Google won.
The only potential weak spot was when we added search commands like quotes, subtraction signs, and more. In this case, it was a 50/50 shot as to which Google search was faster.
As for comparing it to Bing: Well, they don’t display how fast it generates results. It’ll have to sit out this speed test for now.
Winner: The New Google
2. Accuracy
While more subjective, accuracy is probably the issue that users care about most. Does the search engine find what you want on the first try? Well, we did our subjective test. New version:
Old version:
You’ll notice that many of the blended search options, like image search and news, don’t appear in the new version. It’s more likely that the features haven’t all been implemented, but it does decrease its relevancy. FriendFeed ranks much higher in the new search than Twitter or Facebook. Our bet is that the new Google has seen a burst of activity on FriendFeed and thus pushes up that result.
Both sets are very accurate, but subjectively, the set displayed by the new Google search more accurately reflect what a user would be looking for. If you’re wondering about Bing, it didn’t even bring up my personal website.
The next search, “Are social media jobs here to stay?” focused on getting my first Mashable article. The result? The new search cares more about keywords than the last. You could clearly see it cared about the full title and brought up more results with those keywords. Both brought a different set of results, but the new search was more relevant.
Winner: The New Google (tentatively)
3. Temporal Relevancy
How good is each at breaking news? The answer: about the same. FriendFeed results were identical, including the top news items. Searches for “Hall of Fame Game” got better news results on the new search. A search for “China Landslide” also got the same Yahoo and BBC news articles – although we did notice that the new search seems to change faster with new articles. It put an MSNBC article up high for updating the death toll:
We also give credit to Bing – on each search, it brought up great results.
Winner: Draw
4. Index Size:
Perhaps the easiest to test, we can tell the index size based on how many results come up for specific search. Here are searches once again for “dog:”
New:
Old:
Bing:
Searches for “Ben Parr” proved that the new Google is better than the old Google in terms of result size. Bing claims 2,210,000 for my name compared to 183,000 for my name, which is strange. Searches for “Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland Trailer” also show Bing > New Google > Old Google
Winner: Bing, it seems
Conclusion
While this test was nowhere near scientific, we do have some solid takeaways:
New Google is FAST: It often doubled the speed of Google classic.New Google relies more on keywords: SEO professionals, your job just got a lot harder. The algorithm’s definitely different. It has more reliance on keyword strings to produce better results.Search is moving into real-time: Being able to get info on breaking events is clearly a priority for Google and Bing. With both Twitter and Facebook launching real-time search engines, they needed to respond.It’s partially a response to Bing: At least, that’s how we feel. This new search has a focus on increasing speed, relevancy, accuracy, and the index volume, things that Microsoft really hit on when it released Bing. It feels as if Google “Caffeine” is meant to shore up any deficiencies it may have when compared to Microsoft’s offering, though it’s been in the works long before Bing launched.
The new Google will only get better as features are implemented and developed. The end result is a better search experience for the user. Competition really does breed innovation.
L.A. jail tests 'intolerable heat' beam on brawling inmates
Officials at a Los Angeles County jail plan to test out an invisible heat-beam weapon originally developed by the military as a way to subdue brawling inmates by making them feel "intolerable heat."
The technology, called an Assault Intervention Device, is a non lethal-weapon developed by Raytheon Company. It originally was scaled down for use at the jail.
The device "emits a focused beam of wave energy that travels at the speed of light and produces an intolerable heating sensation that causes targeted individuals to flee. The sensation immediately ceases when the targeted individual moves away from the beam," according to Raytheon's website.
Deputies have tested the device, which is controlled by a jail officer using a joystick.
"We believe that technology can help solve problems facing the corrections community, including addressing issues of inmate violence," Sheriff Lee Baca said during a news conference. "The Assault Intervention Device appears uniquely suited to address some of the more difficult inmate violence issues without the drawbacks of tools currently available to us."
"This device will allow us to quickly intervene without having to enter the area and without incapacitating or injuring either combatant," Baca added.
Officials say they hope the device can help quell inmate assaults and reduce prison violence. Its use will be monitored by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice and Pennsylvania State University.
The device was installed and is being tested at Pitchess Detention Center at the L.A. County jail in Castaic, California.
That jail was the site of a 200-inmate brawl this weekend in which inmates threw rocks and debris at officers, who were attempting to stop them from entering a restricted area, according to CNN affiliate KTLA.
KTLA reported the brawl lasted for an hour before tear gas and non-lethal weapons were used. CNN is awaiting comment on whether the new Assault Intervention Device was employed during the brawl.
Alicia Keys Wedding: Swizz Beatz & Alicia Wedding Photos!
Alicia Keys, 29, and Swizz Beatz, 31, took advantage of the media craziness over Chelsea Clinton's wedding and were married quietly over this past weekend. See photos of the beautiful pair.
The magical affair is speculated to have taken place near the Mediterranean Sea at a private home on Sunday.
Alicia Keys looked stunning with her covered baby bump in a Greek goddess-inspired wedding gown by Vera Wang. Her hair was slicked back in a knot/bun with a gorgeous beaded headband draped across her forehead.
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Not to be out done, Swizz wore a Tom Ford tuxedo. His tux seemed to be vintage inspired with a white jacket, ruffled shirt, black bow tie and black dress pants. Overall a classy look for a classic wedding.
Two photos have been spotted with the newlyweds. The first is brought to you by People Magazine. You see a classic bride and groom pose of them kissing with the beautiful sea. It kind of looks like a backdrop, but we're pretty sure it's real. Maybe it was used to distract people from knowing where the wedding took place.
The second photo is candid shot. The pair are strolling along with a child who might be one of Swizz Beatz' sons. Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean, has two sons from previous relationships. The first son is Prince Nasir, 9, and his second son is Kaseem Jr. who is just three-years-old.
Microsoft finally fueling Yahoo's search engine
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp.'s technology is now processing all the search requests on Yahoo Inc.'s website in the U.S. and Canada, completing a long-awaited leap that creates a more formidable challenger to Google Inc. in the most lucrative part of the online advertising market.
Tuesday's shift marks the biggest step yet in a partnership that Microsoft and Yahoo forged 13 months ago after spending years trying to catch up to Google on their own, only to fall further behind.
Microsoft eventually will fuel Yahoo's search engine throughout the world, but the transition in other countries won't occur until next year and 2012. The technology in the U.S. and Canada will only field requests made in English for now, with other languages expected to be added in the next few weeks. The deal doesn't affect Yahoo Japan Corp., a separately run company that plans to rely on Google's search technology.
Since regulators approved their alliance six months ago, Microsoft and Yahoo have been scrambling to get their systems to work cohesively in the U.S. so that they would be able to capitalize on the advertising blitz that heralds the holiday shopping season in November and December. Now that Bing is powering Yahoo's search requests, Microsoft's next challenge is getting its marketing service ready to serve up ads alongside Yahoo's search results before the holidays. Yahoo is providing the ads for now.
By leaning on Microsoft's Bing search engine, Yahoo plans to dramatically lower expenses and focus on other products as it tries to snap out of a financial funk that has depressed its stock price.
Yahoo will sell some ads initially and will use Microsoft's technology to display them. During the first half of the 10-year partnership, Yahoo will get 88 percent of the ad revenue from search requests on its website. After that, the commission could fall to as low as 83 percent or as high as 93 percent, depending on which company handles sales with the top search advertisers.
Microsoft tried to take advantage of Yahoo's problems in 2008 when it offered to buy its rival for $47.5 billion, only to withdraw the bid when the two sides kept quibbling over the price. That's a decision that Yahoo investors and even the company's current CEO, Carol Bartz, have lamented, with Yahoo's stock price trading far below Microsoft's last offer of $33 per share. Yahoo shares fell 18 cents to $13.47 in Tuesday's afternoon trading while Microsoft shares declined 14 cents to $24.14.
As it picks up more traffic from Yahoo, Microsoft hopes to get a better understanding of people's search requests and establish Bing as a more compelling alternative to Google. If it can pull that off, Microsoft will be in a better position to finally start making money in its online division, which has lost $4 billion combined in the company's last two fiscal years alone.
Combined, Microsoft and Yahoo hold a 28 percent share of the U.S. search market, still far behind Google's 66 percent, according to comScore Inc.
Even though Microsoft will be powering Yahoo's search engine, Yahoo says its search results won't look identical to those at Bing. That's because Yahoo's engineers can still tweak the results to serve up unique twists, such as different pictures or suggestions, developed by the company.
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Windows & Interoperability
Windows Phone 7 Tutorials, Bing Share, IE Birthday Marked Microsoft Week
Microsoft released previews of its Windows Small Business Server and Windows Home Server, saw analysts estimate Bing's search-engine market share as flattening, and offered developers a series of Windows Phone 7 tutorial videos.
Windows Phone 7 Tutorials, Bing Share, IE Birthday Marked Microsoft Week - Bing Holds Steady
Microsoft's competition with Google continued in the search-engine arena, with new data suggesting that Bing's percentage of U.S. online searches held steady between June and July. That data, from analysis firm Experian Hitwise, put Bing's overall market share at 9.86 percent for July, behind both Google at 71.43 percent and Yahoo at 14.43 percent.
Similar numbers from comScore put Bing's July market share at 11 percent, trailing Yahoo with 17.1 percent and Google with 65.8 percent.
Depending on how one interprets the data, either Bing is demonstrating long-term staying power in its battle against Google, or else Microsoft's search engine is losing traction for new users.
"The search share for Bing remained flat month-over-month at 11 percent, and roughly 60 basis points lower than March levels, indicating that Bing's momentum is perhaps slowing down," Youssef Squali, an analyst with Jefferies & Co., wrote in an Aug. 17 research note.
In either case, Microsoft's search market share looks to expand once Yahoo completes the transfer of its back-end search to Bing. That transition is expected to take place over the next few days in the United States and Canada; once finished, Yahoo users will begin seeing "Powered by Bing" tags on their search-engine results.
Yahoo and Microsoft signed a search-and-advertising deal in summer 2009 that would see Yahoo take over worldwide sales force duties for both companies' search advertisers, while Bing took over back-end search. In theory, that will give Microsoft a much stronger competitive position with regard to Google, once it absorbs Yahoo's portion of the search market.
Bing's newer features, including colorful maps, demonstrate how far Web applications have evolved since 15 years ago, when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 1.0. That anniversary was marked this week. Although Internet Explorer continues to hold the lion's share of the browser market, it currently faces a robust challenge from the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox; IE has also been at the center of its own controversies, notably the landmark United States versus Microsoft antitrust case.
Microsoft plans on launching Internet Explorer 9 on Sept. 15, in a high-profile event in San Francisco. Improvements will reportedly include speedier browser performance, greater compatibility and compliance with standards, and enhanced HTML5 support.
Fifteen years ago, of course, terms such as "HTML5" and "smartphone" weren't even part of the lexicon. Who knows what the next decade and a half will bring?
Halo!
According to reports, the latest game in the Halo series, which isn't due for release until next month, has already been downloaded early--and from all places, Microsoft's own Xbox Live Marketplace.
Joystiq reports that members of the game-modifying enthusiast site Game-Tuts.com were able to circumvent Microsoft's download key system to download fully licensed copies of the game to their Xbox 360 hard drive. Microsoft had made the full game available to reviewers as a download earlier in the week, though had put in a security measure that would only allow it to be accessed with an authorized redemption code.
According to a post on Game-Tut's forums, which has since been taken down (though is still archived on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 modding enthusiast site Se7ensins.com), the group that obtained the copy has no plans to leak or distribute it elsewhere. The Game-Tuts staff member who penned the post also insisted that the code they acquired is signed by Microsoft and will therefore play on unmodified Xbox 360 hardware.
Of course, this is not the first Halo title to make its way into the hands of gamers ahead of its public release. Nor is it the earliest such leak.
Halo 2 was famously leaked a full month ahead of its release by a European manufacturing plant back in 2004. Unlike this version of Reach, the game code was taken from a retail copy of the disc, then distributed through pirating channels. It also required that users have a modified version of the original Xbox to run the game code off a burned disc or hard drive install.
2007's release of Halo 3 followed suit, with a nearly complete version of the game leaking out to the Web two months ahead of the game's official release. Like the leak of the previous Halo title, this required users to run a modified version of the Xbox 360's system software, though this time around Microsoft was able to bite back, and banned those consoles from accessing its Xbox Live service for 7,992 years.
The most recent leak prior to Reach, was developer Bungie's last Halo game titled ODST, which some lucky French gamers got a full month ahead of its release. Though this time around it was not through manufacturing plants or unofficial leaks. Instead it was a handful of French retailers who broke the street date and sold the game early.
THIS WOMAN NEEDS HER *BEEP* KICKED
South Carolina mom makes first appearance on murder charges
Im'ma need this broad to go sit down and rest those thick ankles some where...
OOOOOO-WWWWEEEEE somebody is going down for this.. Hump I hope it wasn't race related
to why the authorities totally dropped the ball on this one.. JUST SAYIN'
*Kinda shed a tear on this one... Sad!
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