SEO with Google Posts
What Google’s experimental content podium means for SEO This article discusses a new feature from Google, referred to as “Google Posts.” Google Posts is a new content platform designed to host images, videos, and information from verified users and organizations. Publishers on this platform can effectively post material that appears in the search engine results […]
The Google Pixel: How Search Engines May Deviate from Their Algorithms
https://www.cnet.com/products/google-pixel-phone/preview/ Google is set to release the first smartphone fully developed by their company with no outsider input, the Pixel and the Pixel XL on Thursday, October 20th. While the tech world and the gadget manias all around have been following the development process for this new smartphone for quite a while, the release […]
Google’s New Search Index
As we all know, Google is the most popular search engine in existence today. Virtually every single internet session begins with a web search, and Google dominates this market. Recently it was announced that the company is working on a new primary search index for smartphone users. This search index will be entirely separate from […]
Supreme Court Justice Nash Equilibrium
After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, there has been a large political divide on whether or not President Barack Obama being able to nominate a new justice in the last year of his Presidential Term. Congressional Republicans are mostly staunchly against any Presidential Supreme Court nomination by Barack Obama and […]
PageRank in Cybersecurity
Do you remember the Sony PlayStation Breach of 2011? Or the cyber attacks on Nasa in 1999? Most of you will probably remember the former and are curious as to how such large, pivotal companies could face severe security breaches such as these. A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) were interested in […]
Epistemological Problems With the Future of Search
The following article, detailing the threats that the future of search poses to existing players, brings up a number of interesting points for me. While I agree with Bercovich that Google is essentially a high-tech librarian, the most fascinating part of this article is the new paradigm that he thinks will replace this model. At this […]
Game Theory and Donald Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-09/puzzled-about-republicans-and-trump-game-theory-helps It is clear to everyone at this point that Donald Trump is an extremely polarizing presidential candidate, to say the least. We’ve reached the time in the election cycle when all of the dirty truths reveal themselves for the American public to view in disgust, and Trump certainly has quite a few of those. […]
Promising Player Leads to Decline in Play: Braess’s Paradox
The Sydney Swans, an Australian Rules Football Club, acquired Lance Franklin about three months ago, who is one of the best forwards in Australian Rules Football. Even though he is considered to be one of the best forwards, their forward line has proven to be much worse since he arrived. It doesn’t make much sense […]
Google Scholar Search Algorithm
While we discussed search engines in general in class, this articles focuses specifically on google’s scholarly article search engine. According to this study, which can be found here, the primary factor of which articles are prioritized are those that have been cited the most times. This leads to more standard literature articles being found. In addition, […]
How Hackers Use Phishing to Game the System
Hacker Lexicon: What Are Phishing and Spear Phishing? We’ve all been there. Accidentally clicking on a popular search engine’s advertisement suddenly takes us to a sketchy website and something begins to flash across our screen, saying it’s ‘downloading malware prevention software’ or ‘scanning our computer for viruses’. Most of us have been using the internet […]
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