Enhancing PageRank: Mobile Searches versus Desktop Computer Searches
The traditional PageRank algorithm takes into consideration the number of links into a given site and gives authority to that site based on this number. When a search engine then looks for results to show, it ranks the pages based on keywords through the levels of authority each page has. However on a mobile device […]
Applying PageRank to other Searches
http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-discloses-more-search-data-to-woo-retailers-1445384100 The article primarily focuses on Google’s new method of utilizing its search data. Google today released the “Shopping Insights tool.” This feature focuses primarily on Google Shopping, Google’s product search engine. Google has started collecting data using users searches based on location. Google can then offer this data to retailers so retailers are aware of […]
The FCC’s Reverse Auction of TV Broadcast Airwaves
When studying auctions in class, much of the focus was put on the bidder’s self-interest. For example, in a second priced sealed auction, the bidder’s dominant strategy would be to bid their actual valuation of the good. With the Federal Communications Commission, which is responsible for airwaves in the United States, bandwidth is the desired […]
Love: The Silly Game We Play
Most long-term relationships in the context of love can essentially be broken down into parts. For instance, a married couple will have gone through the majority of what I define as “stages” of a relationship. The first stage, as noted in the cited blog post is eye contact. I will define this as the first […]
Game Theory Meets Quantum Mechanics
In recent years, advances in the field of quantum mechanics have made it possible to theoretically study and even physically apply quantum phenomena with a number of founding principles in game theory. Quantum mechanics, being in part the study of the probabilistic behavior of atomic and subatomic particles, introduces physical and metaphysical rules that significantly […]
Google’s Power over the Internet
Google has been widely known as the largest search engine for many years now. There is no doubt that they have incredible control over how popular websites become by simply changing their search algorithm and moving websites up and now their list of relevance. In class, we learned about the PageRank algorithm and how that […]
Private Search Engines
In lecture, we discussed how search engines like Google come across the Problem of Abundance where there are just too many pages that could contain a key word. As a result, they employ all sorts of algorithms in order to weight each page through authority scores and hub scores. According to my news article, Google […]
Chevrolet Bolt
General Motors and LG (a Korean electronics company) has partnered up the production of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt which is supposed to be an affordable all electric car priced at around 35,000 dollars and able to go 200 miles on a single charge. LG will be supplying General Motors with a lot of the components that […]
Bargaining in Networks in the Airline Industry
The air transport industry is a great example of network exchange theory. The main players in the air transport industry are the airplane manufacturers, the airlines, and travel agents. These players interact with each other and airline customers. One of the key interactions is between the airlines and the airplane manufacturers. In this interaction, the […]
YouTube’s Video Search Algorithm
We discussed in class how search engines like Google utilize page rank algorithms to prioritize certain websites when ranking the pages relevant to a search. Google famously bought the popular video-sharing site YouTube in 2006. As an avid YouTube watcher, I was curious how YouTube determined which videos to rank first. How did they determine […]
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