PageRank: Expanding its Use From Web Search to Mobile Search
As the world becomes increasingly mobile, we expect everything we need to be at our fingertips, yet there are very few major companies or technologies that allow us to search for content inside mobile apps or across all of the apps on our mobile device. The article below discusses a relatively new start-up, called Relcy, […]
Relating the Ultimatum Game to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
While people may have very differing opinions regarding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one thing that everyone would agree with is that it is one of the most controversial conflicts of our time. I am not here to give my insight on this rivalry, but I do think that after reading the following post, everyone will […]
Conditional Probability and the Monty Hall Problem
You’ve been selected from the audience of a game show to come up and play a game. The host walks you up to the stage, where you find three doors labelled 1, 2, and 3. He says, “Behind one of these doors is a brand new car. If you pick the door correctly, you get […]
Using PageRank to Combat Fake News
In an age where many people are switching to online sources to get their news, a concern arises where people may not be able to discern if news is accurate and true. This was especially prevalent during the 2016 presidential election, with the rise of “fake news” and news outlets spreading misinformation in order to […]
Your friends are more popular than you
For nearly everyone, their friends are more popular than themselves. As discussed in an article by The Economist, “Why are your friends more popular than you?” this phenomenon is known as the “friendship paradox,” coined in 1991 by Scott Feld. Recently, researchers at the University of Southern California noticed on Twitter the individual user’s followers, […]
Auction Efficiency
Efficiency of Auctions In class, we have explored various types of auctions – private, sealed-bid, first-price, second-price, etc. – and how different auction methods impact the “efficiency” of the result; that is, how different methods of orchestrating an auction can lead to varying results. An auction that is said to be inefficient may result in […]
Google and Fake News
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-algorithm-change-fake-news-rankbrain-2016-12 Fake news is becoming an ever so important phenomenon since the controversial 2016 presidential election. Fake news has been spreading and contributing to much of the bigotry American society, and the world society as a whole, has been facing. The effects of fake news can even be seen on diverse college campuses like our […]
Determining Trustability in P2P Networks via an Alternative Algorithm: Eigentrust
In our networks class, we have talked at lengths about the methods and uses of PageRank, an algorithm for determining result rankings used by search engines such as Google. We found that we could measure the importance of a web page by looking at the number of links to that specific web page, as well […]
Game Theory Software’s Expansion
The applications of game theory are numerous. One of the more recent instances of market penetration by game theory is software. Game theory in software has become a surprisingly accurate and lucrative case study. Through harnessing the logic of game theory, as discussed in class, it is being used frequently by high-value clients. Game theory […]
PageRank Differences between Google and Bing
Article: https://bah.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/BAH_Jobs/0/refreshFacet/318c8bb6f553100021d223d9780d30be?source=JB-14400 For those working in the field of search engine optimization (SEO), it is important to make sure that websites are popular across multiple search engines. Even though it may seem that Google completely dominates the search market, Bing actually has over 20% of the United States search engine market and thus cannot be ignored. […]
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