Future of Search Engines: Context & Integration
Aaron Friedman, the Director of Innovation at Five Blocks, wrote a very interesting article detailing what he believes the future of search engines are. Friedman argues that the millennial generation does not spend time searching for new apps, products on their own. The average person only searches something from their web browser about 1.25 times […]
An Analysis of Booming Private Tutoring Industry in South Korea Through Game Theory
According to the Ministry of Education and National Statistics Agency of South Korea, South Koreans spend about $20 billion on private tutoring each year. This amount is bigger than many other countries’ annual spending on public education. It is true and shocking that in South Korea about ninety percent of elementary students receive private tutoring. […]
Strategic Candy Pooling
Halloween is around the corner, and with it comes mounds of candy from trick-or-treating. In this article, the author discusses trick or treating with his brother. He and his brother go trick or treating together, yet when the night comes to an end, they’re left with vastly different candy supplies. One of you always ended up with a better […]
Using Game Theory to Analyze the Greek Debt Crisis
University of Warwick economics professor, Marcus Miller, thought it would be interesting to predict Eurozone negotiations involving the Greek debt crisis with Game Theory. Given that Greece’s Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has an extensive background in game theory, it is not far fetched to think that some aspect of game theory was incorporated into Greece’s […]
High End Fast Food in the Scope of Market Clearing Prices
A new trend in American eating establishments is the institution of high-end fast food restaurants. There has been a huge expansion of these more expensive, higher quality restaurants, as people turn away from the less expensive, less healthy options, such as McDonalds, Taco Bell and Wendy’s. Examples of these high-end restaurants include Chipotle, SmashBurger, BareBurger, […]
Speaker of House
So, the speaker of House has been in the news a lot lately. Specifically, news about who is going to fill the role? Now, usually when a vacuum of power is opened, that gap is pretty quickly filled. Yet, for this position, possible candidates keep on dropping out. So I looked into the current political […]
Referrals for Jobs
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2015/10/14/linkedin-unveils-new-referrals-product-revamps-recruiter-tool/ Very early in the semester, we discussed how individuals are more likely to find a job from an acquaintance than a close friend. This is because a close friend has more ties to similar people to you, but an acquaintance, with whom you may only share a weak tie, has stronger connections to a […]
Search Retargeting
Have you ever wondered how search engines know exactly what you’re looking for? How they know what advertisements to appeal to you personally? Search engines typically show ads related to the search criteria. If someone searches for jump ropes, chances are that the search engine will display ads for toy stores and a local boxing […]
The Future of PageRank
When people think of Google’s search engine, they think of PageRank, the algorithm that made the company famous. However, there were many issues with PageRank. Google’s goal is to provide users with the top results for a search. A business’ goal is to make sure they are in those top results. Marketing strategies arose that […]
A Better Internet
In the online post linked below, Jacques Mattheij discusses the importance of open protocols in the success of the Internet. As we learned in class, some of the main ingredients of the Internet include (1) ease of making things public to the world, and (2) ease of viewing public files. Both of these ingredients require […]
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