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- Google Employee Redirects Hiybbprqag.com To Google Jobs Page
- Like Any Good Hack, The Daily: Indexed Creates A Feature That Is Needed
- Too Lazy Or Busy To Read? Topicmarks Summarizes Long Texts For You
- Colbert On Sponsor Bing Copying Google: "hiybbprqag" Is A Word Meaning "You Got Served."
- @KennethCole Sets New Bar For Social Media Stupidity [Update: And Removes Tweet]
| Google Employee Redirects Hiybbprqag.com To Google Jobs Page | Top |
| In what is perhaps the most brilliant move in this whole Bing copies Google fiasco, it looks like Google Taiwan employee Chih-Chung Chang has redirected the URL http://www.hiybbprqag.com to the Google Jobs page, possibly in an attempt to hire funnier engine lan? Search Engine Land points out that that Chang registered the domain on February 1st, the day the story first broke, using the Google Taiwan office address. A quick Google search reveals that a person by the name Chih-Chung Chang is a Google Taiwan employee and another search in ironically Bing (after Google mysteriously failed to bring up more informative results) reveals his google.com email. I’ve emailed both him and Google for confirmation but it seems pretty clear that there’s an affiliation here. Perhaps what’s most awesome about the whole thing is the big “Lets work together” you get on the Google splash page after typing in the now infamous nonsense term hiybbprqag . One can’t help but think that Chang innocently bought the domain pre-emptively, in order to circumvent spammers, or worse, Microsoft. Neither Google or Chang have returned my multiple requests for comment. Needless to say hiybbprqag now has tons of relevant results in both Google and Bing Related. Image via/ Search Engine Land CrunchBase Information Google Microsoft Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Like Any Good Hack, The Daily: Indexed Creates A Feature That Is Needed | Top |
| One thing about The Daily that bugged me from the second I first laid eyes on the iPad newspaper that launched yesterday is that there is no one place where you can see a simple list of every story in the issue. There is a table of contents, but it shows only ten featured stories. Like any good hack, The Daily: Indexed creates a feature that is missing from the original but is deeply needed. The Tumblr blog put together by Andy Baio creates a complete table of contents for The Daily . The Daily: Indexed is causing a stir because The Daily is a subscription-only publication meant to be read on the iPad. The Daily’s website is not much more than brochureware for the iPad app at this point, but there is a backdoor to every story. Whenever a subscriber shares a story via email, Twitter, or Facebook from their iPads—like this one about Amish raw milk smugglers —the recipients get a link to the story on thedaily.com. You can’t find these stories by searching the site because there is no search or even any way to navigate from the home page to any of the articles. But the pages are there and Baio simply found the links and created a table of contents pointing to each page. I really don’t think this does anything other than provide free marketing to The Daily. The articles on the Web look like crap compared to reading them on the iPad. And many of the interactive graphics and photos are not available on the Web. It’s just a better experience on the iPad (whether it’s worth paying for is another question, but time will tell). The iPad version could use a better table of contents, though, or an index of every story in the issue. Right now, if it is not one of the ten featured stories in the table of contents, you have to flip through a carousel or timeline of images to see everything. The iPad app would be much easier to navigate if it had a page that was like The Daily: Indexed , but pointing to other stories inside the app. You can see what I mean from this shaky-cam video ) I took yesterday at the launch event: CrunchBase Information News Corporation iPad Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Too Lazy Or Busy To Read? Topicmarks Summarizes Long Texts For You | Top |
| Ever come across a lengthy Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker essay that all your unemployed friends will probably be talking about later, but you simply don’t have time in between tweeting working to read? Well Founder Showcase winner Topicmarks was made for the case of Gladwell and even denser documents like research papers and legal texts, breaking them down into digestible pieces when all you really need to read is an executive summary. Using semantic text extraction and personalization technologies, Topicmarks extracts text from the .pdf, .doc, .html and .txt documents that you upload, copy/paste, email in or enter the URL of. The service then gives you the option to view the “Overview,”"Facts,”"Summary” and”Keywords” of the document as well as “Properties” where you can see the original source. You can also interact with the “Overview” in a multitude of ways, including searching by key word and adding more or less text to the summary as needed. Topicmarks is like a more-fleshed out TL;DR, with an “an enormous breadth of possible applications across various use cases and verticals” says co-founder Roland Siebelink. It has the same aspirations as enterprise solutions Autonomy and OpenText but available for free to consumers within a certain usage amount. When given the criticism that the Topicmarks.com site sure had a lot of text on it for a service that summarized text (specifically, “Maybe you should run Topicmarks through Topicmarks?” ) Siebelink told me, “Up to now the site has been geared particularly towards power users who understand how the technology works, now we’re focused on polishing the interface for the general audience who does not want to know how it works.” Ambitiously, Roland says his future plans are to make the summarization technology readily available across all devices, “wherever people read digital information.” Topicmarks is currently raising a 500K seed round. CrunchBase Information Topicmarks Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Colbert On Sponsor Bing Copying Google: "hiybbprqag" Is A Word Meaning "You Got Served." | Top |
| The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Bing Gets Served www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive The Google/Bing fight over search results-stealing has gone from inspiring jokes like this one on Twitter all the way to Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” last night, where Stephen Colbert took advertiser Bing to the mattresses regarding the news that the search engine had been caught copying Google’s results. “For the first time ever, someone’s search history has been busted for something other than porn,” Colbert said. Riffing on the ridiculous synthetic search terms that Google used to entrap Bing (searches like “hiybbprqag,” “juegosdeben1ogrande,” “jiudgefallon,” “indoswiftjobinproduction,”"mbzrxpgjys” and “delhipublicschool40 chdjob”) Colbert went out of his way to call out Microsoft, “Apparently ‘hiybbprqag’ is a word meaning ‘You got served.’” You can read the Danny Sullivan post that started this mess here. Also, in the same vein. Via @alexia_tsotsis / @issaco | |
| @KennethCole Sets New Bar For Social Media Stupidity [Update: And Removes Tweet] | Top |
| “We had hoped this ad would change the world but we blue it.” - Kenneth Cole Finally someone sees the unrest in Egypt for the marketing opportunity it truly is! I’ve now spent a couple hours reeling from how insensitive it was for designer Kenneth Cole to use #Cairo to publicize the availability of his spring collection online when Egypt is erupting in violence and millions were cut off from Internet communication for days. My first thought here was, uh oh, some PR person is getting fired for this, the most egregious case of hashtag surfing fail I’ve ever seen. But apparently the tweet came from Cole himself, signed “-KC.” Married to former NY Governor Mario Cuomo’s daughter Maria, Kenneth Cole feels entitled to publish consistently superfical ads that dabble in politics, most notably one that equated abortion to purses, “Dear pro-life advocates, Isn’t it a woman’s right to choose? After all, she’s the one carrying it.” Econsultancy points out that furniture maker Habitat pulled a similar move when it hopped on the hashtags #Iran and #Mousavi in order to blatantly advertise its website during the Iran election protests. It ended up firing the intern responsible and deleting the account. What did Kenneth Cole do? He sent out this pithy apology tweet. @KennethCole Kenneth Cole Re Egypt tweet: we weren't intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment -KC about 12 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Retweet Reply “We weren’t intending to make light of a serious situation.” Bullshit. Yes, yes you were. That’s exactly what you were doing. As of yet the media fiasco, estimated 1500 negative retweets an hour and an @KennethColePR spoof account haven’t affected the company’s stock price. But trust me they will. They will. Update: Kenneth Cole has deleted the original tweet, offering this apology on his Facebook page, in essence admitting that maybe it was too soon for Egypt jokes. “I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.” @KennethColePR Rolling through Germany? Gestapo by our new Berlin store! #KennethColeTweets about 8 hours ago via web Retweet Reply @arrington Michael Arrington @ KennethCole I look forward to slavery and holocaust jokes next. about 9 hours ago via web Retweet Reply @hblodget Henry Blodget Hey, @ kennethcole , who's the idiot who sent this tweet? Has he/she been fired yet? http://read.bi/hdMVmj about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweet Reply @alexia Alexia Tsotsis Okay Internet, who do we hate more, Kenneth Cole or Mubarak? about 8 hours ago via Twitter for Mac Retweet Reply @NathanWurtzel Nathan Wurtzel Hey, if you're planning a murder spree, look good doing so in @ KennethCole 's new spring collection! about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweet Reply @gaberivera Gabe Rivera Sadly, outrage over @ KennethCole is mostly played out. Any other angles to take? E.g. http://read.bi/fwuxAI Or maybe: Anti-outrage backlash? about 8 hours ago via web | |
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