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  • Depressed Goat Reunited With Donkey, Ends Hunger Strike

    A goat named Mr. G grew up on a hoarder’s farm and lived most of his life in a dirty pen full of other animals with little to no food or water. He was rescued by animal authorities and taken to a new home, but did not seem happy about his lifestyle change.

    Mr. G’s new caretakers watched as the goat became depressed more and more each day and then went on a hunger strike. The goat laid in his pen for days at a time and refused to eat.

    They soon realized that Mr. G may have been missing his friend donkey who had also belonged to the hoarder and shared a home with the goat. The donkey, Jellybean, had been sent to a different animal care facility than Mr. G, but the animal caretakers decided the two friends belonged together.

    The employees at the Animal Place in Grass Valley where Mr. G was being kept, arranged to have Jellybean brought to the facility. It took three days for the donkey to arrive, but as soon as Jellybean and Mr. G locked eyes, they were happy.

    The workers even caught the reunion on video and shared it on YouTube for the world to see.

    Mr. G followed Jellybean around the enclosure for a long time and refused to leave his side again. He also seemed to come out of his depression and even started eating again.

    “When Jellybean finally arrived, as he was being unloaded from the animal trailer, Mr. G heard him and immediately leapt to his hooves and ran to the door,” said one of the animal caretakers.

    It looks like Jellybean will have a new home with Mr. G at Animal Place and the two friends will never have to worry about being separated again.

    What do you think of the amazing friendship between Mr. G and Jellybean?

    Image via YouTube

  • Another Reason Google Is Taking Search Up A Notch

    Google is taking search up a notch with its latest version of Android, Jellybean. Last week at Google I/O, Google unveiled a number of search improvements with the OS. Three of these were specifically talked about during Google’s keynote: richer Knowledge Graph results, improved voice search and Google Now.

    There’s another feature Google has added to the operating system that’s getting a bit of attention now that people have had a chance to play around with it. There’s a widget for Sound Search, which lets you search for songs by letting the device listen, and find the song in Google Play, where the user can than purchase if they would like.

    Sound Search on Google

    Image credit: AndroidPolice

    If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s essentially what the hugely popular mobile app Shazam does. The app has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android alone. 232,374 of those people have given it a five-star review. Its average rating is 4.5 with 323,379 total reviews. People love shazam. Every time you hear a song and aren’t sure what it is, you have the ability to quickly find out, thanks to this kind of sound search.

    Here’s a video (hat tip: Google Operating System) demo of Google’s new widget:

    The way I see it, this is one example of what Google is likely to continue to do throughout its mobile search strategy, and perhaps its search strategy at large. It’s giving users less of a reason to use a non-Google service (in this case, Shazam).

    The biggest threat to Google’s search market share may just be a decreased dependence on search in general. People are finding new ways to access information all the time, and mobile apps have been driving this more than anything. Shazam offered a service (and really a search service at that) that Google did not. Now Google does.

    People didn’t have to go to Google to find out what the song they were hearing was. Before Shazam, they may have tried to figure it out using Google, and entering keywords with the hopes of trying to explain what they were hearing to retrieve the right result. Now, Google is once again letting users do this with Google, even if not from Google search itself. That’s not to say it won’t be integrated at some point.

    It just so happens that Google may be able to drive some more sales through its Google Play store in the process, effectively killing two birds with one stone.

    If you’re using the last version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, you may be in luck if you want to play around with Google’s Sound Search widget. The Verge points to a forum thread, showing that the feature has been hacked for the previous OS.