Search Engine Can Rely On Another Search Engine
http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-google-search-deal-233963 Yahoo and Google have a deal where Yahoo can display Google search results when people search on Yahoo. This outcome happened due to Google’s solid position as the most powerful search engine and Yahoo’s decline as a search engine. Yahoo is obligated to set aside fifty-one percent of search results to be from Microsoft’s […]
How a Crocodile and a Bird Make the Most of Their Lives
Ever seen on TV where an alligator or crocodile for some reason has its mouth open and there seems to be these little birds chilling inside of its mouth? Well nature and evolution has developed its own version of game theory and prisoner’s dilemma with the relationship between a bird called a ziczac and a […]
PageRank tracks species extinction
Source: http://www.wired.com/2009/09/googlefoodwebs/ http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000494 This article talks about a computational biology research that utilizes PageRank, Google’s searching algorithm to determine the key factors in ecological collapse. In class, we talked about how we can think of PageRank as “fluid” that circulates through the entire network, accumulating at the nodes, specifically web links, that are the most important. […]
Laying a New Internet Foundation
The Obama administration has recently endorsed a plan which the White House hopes will provide for low-cost and high-speed internet in the future. As part of the “dig once” program, companies would lay single broadband tubes underground, allowing multiple providers access to areas using the same line without having to continually undergo construction. This plan […]
Web Search and Zipf’s Law.
The Internet is often seen as a free and open platform to which anyone can contribute. Is this really true now when much of our activity is mediated by search algorithms that are self re-inforcing? Popular pages receive large amounts of views and Google’s search algorithms use this information to form search results. These then re-inforce […]
How Skypicker Is Changing the Discount Flight Market
Jim Edwards, in his Business Insider article “This startup has an algorithm that finds discount flight tickets ‘hidden’ on airline websites,” writes about a new start-up travel site, Skypicker, that finds the cheapest possible flights that other online travel agencies or travel aggregators will not show the customer. Oliver Dlouhy founded Skypicker with his girlfriend, […]
Facebook Unleashing Universal Search Across Social Network
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/22/9587122/new-facebook-search-all-public-posts Facebook is now empowering its search engine by indexing the entire 2 trillion posts on Facebook and make them searchable from in the search box. Facebook’s search box has evolved from a tool to look up people you are interested in to a more fascinating function with which you can perceive everything that is going on around […]
Computerphile on Web Search
Computerphile, a YouTube channel devoted to computers and computer science, recently did a small series on Web Search and page ranking. In the two-video series, Dr. Max Wilson, from the University of Nottingham, discusses how pages are ranked and organized by search engines like Google. This first video discusses how search engines treat data, particularly […]
How the Allied Invasion of France Could Have Been a Disaster
The Allied invasion of German occupied France in the summer of 1944 was the largest invasion by sea in history. It is no overstatement that the nearly month long invasion, starting on the sixth of June, was the most divisive moment of the entire second World War. From our current vantage point, we can clearly […]
Libscore – Another Application of PageRank
Original Article: https://medium.com/@Shapiro/introducing-libscore-com-be93165fa497#.ksgk8daku As we learned in class, link analysis and PageRank is applicable to more than just web search. In general, the PageRank algorithm assigns scores to nodes in a graph. For search, the scores determined relevance. In another example from the textbook, PageRank can be used to determine the “impact” of scientific papers […]
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