Facebook's $100 billion IPO: By the numbers

Mark Zuckerberg may be one happy entrepreneur next year if projections that Facebook's IPO will leave him $24 billion richer come to pass. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEE ALL 100 PHOTOS $24 billion Net w......for more information visit http://www.i4u.com/related_articles/01std0sdNO88T

iPad 3 to get Microsoft Office 2012

Microsoft is working on Office for the iPad, bringing its ubiquitous productivity suite to Apple's tablet for the first time. It may come as a surprise with Microsoft's own tablet-friendly Windows 8 OS in the offing, but a report in The Daily reveals tha...for more information please visit http://www.i4u.com/related_articles/0buJgOQ32gf75

Britney Spears Beats Larry Page As Most Popular On Google+

Google+ took a big step toward being a more “normal” social network today, as Britney Spears passed Larry Page to be the most followed person on the service.

Move Over, Tech Celebs

Until now, the most popular people on Google+ have been technology celebrities, in particular first Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who never posted to his Google+ account), then Google CEO Larry Page.

In contrast, the most followed people on Facebook and Twitter — more mature social networks — tend to be the same celebrities you find in real life, such as musicians and actors.

Spears Goes To Number One

Currently, Spears has 739,370 followers to (Britney Spears) her account on Google Plus:

And Page has 739,241 followers to (Larry page) his account:

Article source: http://searchengineland.com/britney-spears-beats-larry-page-popular-google-102181

Jennifer Lopez, 42, dating dancer hunk, 24

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Megan Fox Heading to Great White Way

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Google reveals how it ranks websites

Google Inc offered a detailed glimpse into its secret process of ranking internet websites. SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc offered a detailed glimpse into its secret process of ranking internet websites, publishing for the first time a list of recent tweaks ...

Google set to launch music store Wednesday

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Apple's iTunes Match now available; feature costs $24.99 a year

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Writer: 

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Stars:

 Doug Bradley, Rita Ramnani and Jonnie Hurn

Story Summary: In the Old West, the assassination of an ageing cowboy is thwarted by a sultry vampiress, the would-be killer left for dead in the dust. A hundred years later an ancient obsidian mirror, long unearthed from the Mesopotamian desert, is liberated from an American collector's vault and illegally transported to Europe. Jacob, an unscrupulous antiques dealer, moves to a remote farmhouse with his pregnant young wife, Lauren, and his difficult ward, Rachel.

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Google Search Algorithm Change For Freshness To Impact 35% Of Searches; Twitter Firehose Remains Off

Google announced they are rolling out a new search algorithm change that helps make the search results “fresher.” The big news here is that besides for the results being fresher, the results will change for about 35% of all searches.

Caffeine Was Infrastructure, This Is Algorithmic

Fresher results can make for more relevant results, which is why Google moved over to the caffeine infrastructure last year. That was only an infrastructure change, to make sure Google can index, crawl and return results faster. Now Google changed their search algorithm to show fresher results, fresher than ever before.

Google said:

We completed our Caffeine web indexing system last year, which allows us to crawl and index the web for fresh content quickly on an enormous scale. Building upon the momentum from Caffeine, today we’re making a significant improvement to our ranking algorithm that impacts roughly 35 percent of searches and better determines when to give you more up-to-date relevant results for these varying degrees of freshness.

35% Of The Searches Are Impacted

That is larger than the Panda update which impacted 12% of the searches conducted.

What type of searches does it impact? Google said:

• Recent events or hot topics. For recent events or hot topics that begin trending on the web, you want to find the latest information immediately. Now when you search for current events like [occupy oakland protest], or for the latest news about the [nba lockout], you’ll see more high-quality pages that might only be minutes old.
• Regularly recurring events. Some events take place on a regularly recurring basis, such as annual conferences like [ICALP] or an event like the [presidential election]. Without specifying with your keywords, it’s implied that you expect to see the most recent event, and not one from 50 years ago. There are also things that recur more frequently, so now when you’re searching for the latest [NFL scores], [dancing with the stars] results or [exxon earnings], you’ll see the latest information.
• Frequent updates. There are also searches for information that changes often, but isn’t really a hot topic or a recurring event. For example, if you’re researching the [best slr cameras], or you’re in the market for a new car and want [subaru impreza reviews], you probably want the most up to date information.

Postscript From Danny Sullivan: Had a chance to get some questions answered from Google now, plus some addition issues, below….

Freshness Ranking Not New, Just Apparently Improved

It’s not new for Google to do a boost of fresh content. “Query Deserved Freshness” is a content ranking factor that dates back to 2007. The Caffeine update of last year made it possible, Google said, to gather content even faster, which in turn could potentially be ranked better.

So what’s different now? Apparently, freshness is getting even more rewarded, having an impact on one out of three searches. That’s huge — though it’s unclear what it was before. For all we know, 35% of searches were already being impacted by freshness ranking. The previous number was never stated (and yes, we’re checking with Google on this).

Postscript: Google says the change is providing “fresh” content for twice as many queries as before. In other words, the old “freshness” algorithm had an impact on about 17.5% of queries. Now it impacts double that figure, 35%.

Potential For “Freshness” Spam

There are potential downsides. Sometimes you do want to reward fresh content. But what’s fresh? If someone simply makes a small change to a page, does that give it a fresh boost? If someone reposts exactly the same content on a new page a day or two after initially posting it, is that fresh? Is when the page was first found define freshness, or is the first modified date used?

Does this open Google up to an even worse situation than can already happen with Google News now, where publishers file and refile stories in an effort to win the freshness race there, since the latest versions of stories often get top billing.

Rewarding freshness potentially introduces huge decreases in relevancy, new avenues for spamming or getting “light” content in. Most likely, Google’s going to use a combination ofsearch ranking factors to help qualify when it wants to trust something is both fresh and good.

Google wouldn’t say how “freshness” is being determined, but it did tell us in response to questions that being fresh wasn’t the only thing being rewarded:

Freshness is one component, but we also look at the content of the result, including topicality and quality.

Postscript: Google now tells us that one of the freshness factors — the way they determine if content is fresh or not — is the time when they first crawled a page. So if you publish a page, and then change that page, it doesn’t suddenly become “fresh.”

Freshest Info Still Missing: Twitter

Also unclear is the situation with Twitter. The largest amount of “fresh” information on the web are tweets. Despite the growth of Google+, the volume of tweets happening far eclipses the content there.

Google has been without timely access to tweets since July. It simply cannot crawl Twitter fast enough without receiving the “firehose” of Twitter data to keep up. Today’s announcement does nothing to solve this. Google is only introducing a ranking change, not an indexing change that brings in more tweets.

I asked about this issue, how Google still lacks the Twitter firehose and was told:

Often times when there’s breaking news, microblogs are the first to publish. We’re able to show results for recent events or hot topics within minutes of the page being indexed, but we’re always looking for ways we can serve you relevant information faster and will work to continue improving

35% Change Doesn’t Mean 35% Improvement

A final but important caveat. It’s important not to misinterpret the percentage Google gave out — a 35% change to its results — to mean they are 35% improved.

I saw this the first time we saw Google start talking about a percentage change to it search results, when the Panda Update was said to create at 12% impact. Some assumed that meant a 12% improvement. It didn’t.

We have no commonly accepted way of rating search engine result quality in a numeric fashion. No third party measures if Google or Bing’s results are “90%” good, for example. This means there’s no way to say whether something has improved by a particular percentage.

Google is clear what it means when it puts these percentages out. I’ve never seen them say that they’re to be interpreted as some type of improvement metric. But people do make that mistake — and shouldn’t.

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I Spy English Movie [2002] BluRay 520p [Englisg to Hindi dub]

A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.

Director: 

Betty Thomas

Writers: 

Morton S. Fine (characters), David Friedkin(characters)

Stars:

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Salman Butt, a man who had everything, faces a life of ignominy

Salman Butt has "lost everything" according to his counsel, due to the loose talk of his friend and former agent to an undercover journalist from the News of the World. Yet as Mazhar Majeed took his seat in the dock next to him on Wednesday, Butt unexpectedly engaged his nemesis in polite conversation.

Once Majeed's counsel had finished presenting his case for clemency to the court, however, the last embers of his friendship with Butt seemed finally to have been extinguished. The former batsman's accusing glare told of a deep sense of betrayal. Majeed's own face was a rictus of anguish as his counsel, seeking to mitigate the prison sentence he will surely receive for his part in a conspiracy to subvert cricket, held up Butt as the criminal mastermind. The version of events that unfolded was of a greedy, jealous young man, one not content with a princely fortune in excess of £1m. According to Majeed, Butt yearned for the still-greater wealth of team-mates from less comfortable backgrounds, whom he perceived to be enjoying the corrupt rewards of match-fixing.

Majeed's statement told the court that it was Butt who had put him in touch with "Sanjay", an illegal bookmaker in India who had previously been described to the court as "sinister", and that Butt was the instigator and the ringleader of the plot. Butt strenously denied knowing Sanjay.

It is difficult to know whom to believe. Yet that is the task facing Mr Justice Cooke on Thursday, as he considers the sentences to hand down against Majeed, Butt and the bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.

At one stage Mark Milliken-Smith QC, for Majeed, addressed the court to relay his client's explanation that Butt had collected £10,000 from the plot to bowl three no-balls at Lord's. He said that Asif and Amir had received £65,000 and £2,500 respectively. As Milliken-Smith spelled out those figures, confused, angry expressions overtook the three convicted cricketers in the dock. This was the disintegration of a collapsed match-fixing ring that could cost all four men their liberty.

Butt is suffering an inner turmoil his stoical expression did not reflect: in the hour before his guilt was finally proven on Tuesday after a 22-day trial in courtroom four of Southwark crown court, his wife had been giving birth to his second child in Lahore. At the precise moment he might otherwise have been excitedly relaying happy news to friends and family, he was instead 6,000 miles away, listening to his legal team as they explained the likely custodial consequences of his criminal actions.

"He then had to make the phone call of his life to explain to his wife what this will mean," said Ali Bajwa QC. "His money is almost entirely gone. It has gone on [defending himself against International Cricket Council charges in] Doha, and on travelling to this country for this trial. The pressure he now feels is indescribable. There is no welfare state in Pakistan. Mr Butt cannot enjoy that peace of mind. A person who receives an immediate custodial sentence here can expect visits from their family. Mr Butt cannot expect that here. He has been in this country four weeks. He misses his son, with whom he has a very special bond, terribly.

"He did not sleep at all last night and has not eaten since [the verdict] either. He has received one hammer blow after the next for his involvement in that conspiracy. From losing the captaincy, suspension from cricket, loss of his money, his income, his honour, his reputation, his cricket career. Having lost everything as a result of his involvement in this conspiracy, he now has only his liberty and his family left to lose. He invites me to urge upon [the judge] any alternative than prison. He asks your lordship what a prison sentence would achieve."

One motive could be deterrence, and there are concerns that what has emerged here is scratching the surface. The judge heard assertions from Majeed's counsel that "Sanjay" had boasted of "his involvement with other players, not just in the subcontinent".

Majeed, with his daughters aged seven and five and his three-month-old son, is said to be beset with dread. "He accepts it has had a devastating effect on not only the sport of cricket itself but also the consequences on those who play and support the sport, not only the many millions of players but children as well," said Milliken-Smith of his client. "He knows he must be and will be punished for what he has done and admitted."

Amir, too, once the most promising cricketer of his generation, is now a man in ignominy, his head bowed throughout Wednesday's proceedings. "The best day of my life was when I was selected to play for Pakistan," he said in a statement read to the court. "I got my shirt the night before, I put it on and stood in front of the mirror for a very long time.

"If I could have I would have slept in it, but I didn't want to ruin the shirt. That moment was my dream as soon as I began to realise I could play well when I was 13. My only dream was to play cricket for Pakistan. I don't know what my future holds but I would like to say I have learnt a very hard lesson."

Mr Justice Cooke said: "An inference that could be drawn is that this was such a widespread activity in the team that a newcomer could be infected with the activity, as this was a norm."

If that is so, then those who are involved in match-fixing should read carefully what the convicted men are going through even before their fates have been decided.

Fixing is not just restricted to sub-continent: Lee

Melbourne: Pakistan might be in the eye of storm after guilty verdicts against three of its cricketers but Australian speedster Brett Lee believes match-fixing is not restricted to the sub-continent and can happen anywhere in the world.

But Lee maintained that he never felt anything suspicious about his colleagues against whom he has played so far in his career.

"What I will say publicly is that it's not just the subcontinent and I don't want to focus on Pakistan or India or people might think it's because (of) the subcontinent", the affable pacer was quoted as saying by the 'Australian Associated Press'.

"It's every day, (an) every walk of life type of thing and it's not just cricket.

"The most important thing is, I believe, that every time I walked out on the field, and the players that have played with me, there was certainly nothing that would ever make me think personally that there was something dodgy going on," he added.

In his new autobiography 'My Life', Lee writes about an incident when he was approached by a man with potential links to bookmakers during the 2009 Ashes series.

However, Lee said he has never been approached by anyone to deliberately alter his bowling to change the course of a match.

"We were in a bar/hotel set-up. A guy came and offered to buy us a drink. I just didn't feel right, reported it to the team manager and then it turned out that he was potentially, if not, a bookmaker," he said.

"There was nothing ever said but I just didn't feel right in that circumstance. I actually did walk away. Have I ever been asked to bowl (a particular way by a bookie)? No," said Lee.

Pakistan cricketers -- Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif -- are awaiting their fate in Southwark Crown Court in London after being convicted in the spot-fixing scandal that came to light last year.

The 34-year-old Australian said the corruption scandal has made players very apprehensive and wary of getting into a conversation with strangers.

"You guys might ask what's the pitch going to do tomorrow," he said.

"How do you answer that these days? It's sad that it could get to that state."

He said this scandal will tarnish cricket's image to an extent but the game would soon bounce back.

"It's sad more than anything because they've gone down a path unfortunately, whether through bad advice or just a bad call. They're going to pay the price," he said.

" ...It's a horrible moment because these young guys have got some serious talent.

"I do believe that cricket has got a great image. This will obviously tarnish it to a certain extent but I do believe that rather than focusing on the negatives that we can focus on the positives.

"Yes, it's an issue. It's hopefully been dealt with but I always look to the positives," he added.

Abhishek Bachchan wants a baby girl

As the date of Baby B's arrival is drawing close, speculation about everything related to parents-to-be Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan is increasing by the day.

Abhishek's buddy and fellow actor Sikandar Kher revealed on a television show recently that Abhi is keen on a baby girl. So much so that he couldn't stop reiterating, "He really wants a baby girl."

"I can't believe he's having a baby. He is anyway very kiddish. But I'm sure he will mature now," he added.

Wonder what Abhi has to say to that?