SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - – Hacking and art mixed on Friday in a freshly-launched dating website that lets visitors seek mates by sifting through profile pictures mined from Facebook.
Lovely-faces.com boasted Facebook pictures of about 250,000 people searchable in categories that included nationality, gender, funny, smug, and "climber."
The creators of the online "dating agency" were identified at the website as artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovic.
'Our mission was to give all these virtual identities a new shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring social rules," the website authors said in an online statement datelined in Berlin.
The artists explained that a million "stolen" Facebook profile pictures were analyzed using facial recognition software that filtered images by expressions.
"Immersing ourselves in the resulting database was a hallucinatory experience as we dove into hundreds of thousands of profile pictures and found ourselves intoxicated by the endless smiles, gazes and often leering expressions," the artists said.
"So we established a new website (lovely-faces.com) giving them justice and granting them the possibility of soon being face to face with anybody who is attracted by their facial expression and related data."
Facebook frowned on lovely-faces, saying that "scraping" or mining information violates the terms of service at the world's leading online social network. Facebook was investigating and vowed to take "appropriate" action.
Ironically, the story of Facebook's genesis tells of its founder Mark Zuckerberg getting in trouble for hacking Harvard University computers while a student to get pictures of coeds for comparison with each other at a website called "Face Mash" that he created.
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Use this code to convert your Mysql Query to Excel file
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Google accusing Microsft Bing as a copy a big fraud
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - – A spat between Internet titans heated up with Microsoft angrily denying that Bing copies Google's search results and the world's top online search engine adamant it has proof.
Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi went on the offensive in a blog post that accused Google of tricking Bing with a "honeypot attack" too sweet to resist.
"In simple terms, Google's 'experiment' was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack also known as 'click fraud,'" Mehdi said.
"That's right, the same type of attack employed by spammers on the Web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results."
Google held firm that it conducted a simple, honest experiment that showed Bing copied its search results and that rather than gripe about getting caught it should simply stop doing it.
"Some Bing results increasingly look like an incomplete, stale version of Google results -- a cheap imitation," said Amit Singhal, one of the company's search engineers, on Google's official blog.
Google had noted that in the summer of 2010 Bing did not return any results for a misspelled search for the surgical eye procedure "tarsorrhaphy."
"Later in the summer, Bing started returning our first result to their users without offering the spell correction," Singhal said. "This was very strange."
The experiment was repeated with nonsensical searches, including "hiybbprqag," "delhipublicschool40 chdjob," and "juegosdeben1ogrande," which Google had designed to link to a single unrelated result.
Google engineers used their company's search engine and Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software to search on the fabricated terms that generated orchestrated results.
Within weeks, Bing offered the same results for searches on the made-up terms, according to Singhal.
Google equated the experiment to releasing intentionally false information and following its trail.
"We do not copy results from any of our competitors," Mehdi said. "Period.
"We have some of the best minds in the world at work on search quality and relevance, and for a competitor to accuse any one of these people of such activity is just insulting," he continued.
Microsoft argued that search feedback from users of Internet Explorer is "one of more than 1,000 signals" taken into account by its formula to match online queries with results.
Bing gets information from users who agree to share anonymous data "as they navigate the web in order to help us improve the experience for all users."
Google found it suspicious that a fictional search term and fabricated results popped into Bing if they were just one signal in a sea of more than 1,000 signals considered by Microsoft's ranking software.
"However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google," Singhal said in a blog post detailing the sting operation.
"To those who have asked what we want out of all this, the answer is simple: we'd like for this practice to stop."
Bing corporate vice president Harry Shum dismissed Google's experiment as "a spy-novelesque stunt."
"It doesn't accurately portray how we use opt-in customer data as one of many inputs to help improve our user experience," Shum said.
"We all learn from our collective customers, and we all should," Shum said.
Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi went on the offensive in a blog post that accused Google of tricking Bing with a "honeypot attack" too sweet to resist.
"In simple terms, Google's 'experiment' was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack also known as 'click fraud,'" Mehdi said.
"That's right, the same type of attack employed by spammers on the Web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results."
Google held firm that it conducted a simple, honest experiment that showed Bing copied its search results and that rather than gripe about getting caught it should simply stop doing it.
"Some Bing results increasingly look like an incomplete, stale version of Google results -- a cheap imitation," said Amit Singhal, one of the company's search engineers, on Google's official blog.
Google had noted that in the summer of 2010 Bing did not return any results for a misspelled search for the surgical eye procedure "tarsorrhaphy."
"Later in the summer, Bing started returning our first result to their users without offering the spell correction," Singhal said. "This was very strange."
The experiment was repeated with nonsensical searches, including "hiybbprqag," "delhipublicschool40 chdjob," and "juegosdeben1ogrande," which Google had designed to link to a single unrelated result.
Google engineers used their company's search engine and Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software to search on the fabricated terms that generated orchestrated results.
Within weeks, Bing offered the same results for searches on the made-up terms, according to Singhal.
Google equated the experiment to releasing intentionally false information and following its trail.
"We do not copy results from any of our competitors," Mehdi said. "Period.
"We have some of the best minds in the world at work on search quality and relevance, and for a competitor to accuse any one of these people of such activity is just insulting," he continued.
Microsoft argued that search feedback from users of Internet Explorer is "one of more than 1,000 signals" taken into account by its formula to match online queries with results.
Bing gets information from users who agree to share anonymous data "as they navigate the web in order to help us improve the experience for all users."
Google found it suspicious that a fictional search term and fabricated results popped into Bing if they were just one signal in a sea of more than 1,000 signals considered by Microsoft's ranking software.
"However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google," Singhal said in a blog post detailing the sting operation.
"To those who have asked what we want out of all this, the answer is simple: we'd like for this practice to stop."
Bing corporate vice president Harry Shum dismissed Google's experiment as "a spy-novelesque stunt."
"It doesn't accurately portray how we use opt-in customer data as one of many inputs to help improve our user experience," Shum said.
"We all learn from our collective customers, and we all should," Shum said.
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Create a Dark and Surreal Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Create this intense photo manipulation with Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to manipulate stock photos and turn them into this dark and surreal scene. A PSD is included with this tutorial.
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Blue on Black Navigation Bar
Design a beautiful navigation bar in Photoshop. This tutorial will teach you how to combine several layer styles to create a beautiful yet simple navigation bar.
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3D social icons in Photoshop
Hello, today we will design 3D social icons in Photoshop. I will explain step by step. We will transform shapes few times to give 3d look to icons.
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dark professional website layout
Learn how to design a dark professional website layout, utilizing techniques such as creating a unique header background effect, and working with multiple blending options.
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save to another php file for radio
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PSITS DIGITAL ART
my entry for Digital art competition of 2010 PISITS Convention Roxas city capiz
2 bad i havent made it and i dont know why!
but more or less i was happy that many people like my work!
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FlexiMenus JS Dreamweaver
Hi guys! check out this new extension for Dreamweaver its very cool!.
FlexiMenus JS is a JavaScript menu extension for Dreamweaver. Thanks to the powerful styling system, every menu design element can be individually customized with new fonts, colors, margins, images and text styles. FlexiMenus JS for Dreamweaver comes with 30 eye-catching transition effects like Fade, Slide, Reveal and 15 menus skins that can be managed from the Dreamweaver UI, with no coding required.
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PAYPAL wishlist
Guys have you tired this paypal wishlist??
nver heard of it?
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