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Countries frequently amend or draft constitutions, but they can’t always find example constitutions to work from — not every country publishes its founding documents in accessible formats. So, Google’s simplifying nation building by launching Constitute, a website that puts all the world’s constitutions in one place. The tool indexes both basic details as well as policies. It’s easy to filter charters by their creation date, for example, or to find countries that protect equality based on gender. Whether you’re forming a government or just like to dabble in political science, you can try Constitute at the source link.

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Microsoft has spent a lot of time and money on building Bing as a strong rival against Google, which is undoubtedly the most used online search engine in the world. Bing currently accounts for 17.9 percent of the entire U.S. search traffic, trailing Google, which rakes in almost 67 percent search traffic. During Microsoft’s financial analysts meeting, outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer said that “we’re the only guys in the world trying,” with the Bing search engine to rival Google’s dominance. He further added that Google has this “incredible, amazing, dare I say monopoly that we are the only person left on the planet trying to compete with.”

Ballmer also voiced his frustrations against the internet search giant. He said that Google’s practises are “worthy of discussion with competition authorities,” adding that they have certainly discussed them with the relevant authorities. He believes that Google’s practices are getting “less meritorious of discussion.” Microsoft has certainly tried to raise a question mark over Google’s business practices, which it believes are worthy of discussion, through its “Scroogled” ad campaigns, though they seem to have received mixed reactions. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to makes its search offering better. Only recently it unveiled a new Bing logo, not only that, it also made changes to the search algorithm which is basically the foundation upon which the entire search engine is laid.

Steve Ballmer Believes Google Is A ‘Monopoly’ original content from Ubergizmo.

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network, has been sued by customers who allege that it hacked their email accounts and downloaded contacts illegally. The customers aim to lead a group suit against LinkedIn, they’ve asked a federal judge in San Jose, California to stop LinkedIn from repeating any such practise and also return any revenue that it might have made by using their identities in order to promote its own website to non-members. Speaking to Bloomberg, Doug Madey, a spokesman for LinkedIn said that the company believes this lawsuit is without merit, they’re ready to fight back vigorously.

The allegation here is that LinkedIn is accessing users’ email accounts and downloading their contacts, it is then sending multiple emails to non-members about its products and services. The plaintiffs allege that “LinkedIn’s appropriation of email addresses to send multiple reminder emails promoting its service is motivated by monetary gain. Plaintiffs are pushing for a jury trial. LinkedIn calls itself the largest online professional network with over 238 million members, it also claims to tout executives from every Fortune 500 company. The company’s spokesman says that it is committed to putting its members first, and that this entails “being transparent about how we protect and utilize our members’ data.”

Customers Sue LinkedIn Alleging It Hacked Their Email Accounts original content from Ubergizmo.

Earlier this month a slightly different Google logo was leaked, it was as they say, “flat.” Today Google has announced that it has indeed rolled out a new logo, its not a radical redesign by any margin, they’ve made it flat and refined the color palette as well as the letter shapes. The new logo is now live on the search giant’s homepage, Google says that it will roll out the logo across more products and services over the next few weeks. That’s not the only visual change that has been made, the black navigation bar has been revamped so as to offer a more streamlined experience across all products and services.

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New Google Logo Unveiled original content from Ubergizmo.

The notion of personalized, contextually aware search is nothing new, but it can put a tremendous strain on servers by asking for a lot of data at once. NC State has developed a search technique that could ease that burden. Its code prioritizes results based solely on the “ambient query context,” or the concepts related to a person’s recent search history. Look for politicians, for example, and a search for Ford is more likely to bring up Gerald Ford than the car company. By focusing on just a fraction of a user’s search habits, the university can customize results using far fewer processor cycles: while a test server could only handle 17 active searchers with an old approach, it can manage 2,900 with the new method. The query engine won’t be confined to the lab, either. NC State tells us that a community-driven search beta is due within several months, and there are plans to commercialize the technology in the long run.

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