PageRank treats Cancer?
Pagerank is used all over the World Wide Web, with Google as arguably the search engine whose algorithm has been the most prominent for the last decade or so. And we know that. We understand how pagerank applies to literally ranking pages. However, PageRank fascinates scientists on a completely different level. For researchers from the the Scripps […]
Bidding Strategies for eBay Auctions
With the growing popularity of online shopping, a lot of customers have turned to online auction sites such as eBay in order to find great deals. Many times, products on eBay sell for a much lower price that the retail price, causing customers to wonder what the best strategy is for bidding on websites similar […]
Facebook’s New Search Algorithm
Recently, Facebook has pushed to make its site more of a news outlet instead of primarily a social media network. They have done this through changing how the search bar works – instead of having searches result in people that you may know, instead it will show other people’s posts related to the topic. By […]
Google and Pagerank
We learned in class the importance of pagerank and how Google utilizes this algorithm to make its search engine the best in the world. But from the producer point of view, meaning the people who manage the websites which pop up in the Google searches, they think of the same algorithm when designing their sites. […]
Relating PageRank and Football Rankings
Recorded by IEEE Spectrum’s Steven Cherry, Cherry interviewed two academics who were apart of a group of mathematicians who compared ranking football teams and Google’s PageRank. The two “have more in common than you might think”. The group’s research was posted in an issue of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal of Scientific Computing. […]
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