| Google Shows 'How Search Works' With New Site | | Friday, March 01, 2013 7:32 PM | Emily Price |
| Ever wondered how Google’s search works? The company launched a new website Friday, appropriately called How Search Works, to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the process from start to finish. “Here you can follow the entire life of a search query, from the web, to crawling and indexing, to algorithmic ranking and serving, to fighting webspam,” Google Product Manager Jake Hubert said in a blog post announcing the page.
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| 'The Simpsons' Do the 'Harlem Shake' | | Friday, March 01, 2013 5:45 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "Harlem Shake" meme videos keep piling up on YouTube, and today Homer Simpson and his animated companions on The Simpsons threw their rendition into the mix. Fox will use the show's ever-changing opening segment on an upcoming episode to do the "Homer Shake," a colorful version of the viral phenomenon set to a Homer-ized cover of Baauer's 2012 single "Harlem Shake." Baauer's song is featured in the other versions of the meme.
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| White House Totally Owns Obama's 'Jedi Mind Meld' Mistake | | Friday, March 01, 2013 4:04 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| The White House's digital team is spending Friday afternoon trying its hardest to own President Barack Obama's sci-fi slip-up during a press conference earlier in the day. Obama said during the conference that he can't perform a "Jedi mind meld" to get Republicans to agree to a sequester deal.
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| Amanda Palmer Wins TED | | Friday, March 01, 2013 1:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Ask attendees what they most remember about the TED 2013 conference, wrapping up Friday in Long Beach, and here's one of the most frequent answers you'll get: Amanda Palmer. The former Dresden Dolls singer is the first to admit, as she does in her TED talk, above, that her punk cabaret music isn't for everyone.
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| Facebook Showing Off 'New Look' for News Feed March 7 | | Friday, March 01, 2013 1:04 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook has invited reporters to its Menlo Park headquarters on March 7 to take a look at its new News Feed. A redesigned version of Timeline is already being tested in New Zealand.
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| 6 Things to Do Before You Delete Your Facebook Account | | Friday, March 01, 2013 12:52 PM | Elisha Hartwig |
| You've probably thought about deleting your Facebook account before, but for one reason or another you've been unable to commit. Maybe you're applying for a job and don't want your future employer to see pics of you at college frat parties. Or maybe you just can't stand one more depressing status update.
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| 7 Things We'd Change About Spotify | | Friday, March 01, 2013 11:46 AM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Editor's Note: The original version of this post included three requests for features that Spotify already has. We have updated the text and highlighted how to access those features at the bottom of the post. Mashable regrets the error. Here at Mashable we love Spotify, but there are things we'd change about the music streaming service.
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| 'Do the Harlem Shake' on YouTube for a Surprise | | Friday, March 01, 2013 11:27 AM | Chris Taylor |
| The Harlem Shake phenomenon, despite many attempts to stop it in its tracks or to point out that it has nothing to do with the original dance, is still going strong on YouTube. Workplaces and dorm rooms around the world are still uploading thousands of new 30-second Shake videos daily. So those pranksters at YouTube have honored the meme with a fun little Easter egg.
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| Vatican Celebrates Pope Benedict XVI With Comic Sans Photo Album | | Friday, March 01, 2013 11:14 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI took the almost-unprecedented step of retiring from the papacy and became "Pope Emeritus," the Vatican posted a 60-page photo album — that's entirely in Comic Sans. The album is chock full of papal photos from Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, with each page highlighting a different part of Benedict's short-lived papacy.
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| Why Groupon Ousted Its CEO | | Friday, March 01, 2013 10:23 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Groupon's fourth quarter earnings appear to have been the last straw for CEO Andrew Mason, who was ousted from his post on Thursday. Mason's dismissal came the morning after the company reported its results, so there's an obvious causation. But how bad was Groupon's 4Q? As this chart from Statista shows, there's a case to be made that the quarter wasn't that bad.
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| One-Man Electro Band to Perform at MashBash During SXSWi | | Friday, March 01, 2013 10:05 AM | Jennifer Diamond |
| Gifted dance music master Robert Delong will perform at Mashable's SXSWi party on Sunday, March 10 at Speakeasy in Austin, Texas. Recently featured on Mashable and voted one of MTV's Artists to Watch, Delong is making a splash in the digital world and generating a buzz in the global music industry.
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| 18 Major Tech Contributions From Entrepreneurial Women | | Friday, March 01, 2013 9:36 AM | Zoe Fox |
| Despite making up more than half of U.S. degree earners and roughly half of the U.S. workforce, women comprise less than one-quarter of STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) professionals. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, women's share of STEM jobs has not increased over the past decade, despite the demographic's rise in college degrees.
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| Nars Tests Pinterest's Selling Potential | | Friday, March 01, 2013 8:52 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| Nars, whose last social media campaign managed to generate not-insignificant interest in a new cosmetics collection without giving away free product, is hoping to do the same with its next campaign — this time, on Pinterest instead of Facebook.
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| Tablets vs. TV: Which Screen Time Is Better For Your Kids? | | Friday, March 01, 2013 8:46 AM | Jeana Lee Tahnk |
| Jeana Lee Tahnk is a high-tech PR consultant and writer who focuses on technology and parenting. She pens the Screen Play technology blog for Parenting Magazine and also writes for Cool Mom Tech and more.
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