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A Step Back for Hopefully a Step Forward

Article: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/17/google-search-drug-use-opioid-epidemic/ While Google may have good intentions, it appears that they made steps in the wrong direction in their attempt help shape the drug treatment industry. The Intercept published this article explaining how, at first, people were being pushed into the treatment facilities that earned reps the most money because of the Ad-Words system […]

PageRank in the Ecosystem

PageRank – Google’s algorithm for ranking web pages – can be adapted to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems, and which are not. A specimen with a better “PageRank” would be more embedded into the web of relationships within the ecosystem, and its demise would lead to the collapse of the entire ecosystem. […]

Google Denies Deliberately Lowering Pirate Bay’s PageRank

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/10/google-denies-demoting-the-pirate-bays-search-ranking-in-some-countries/ This article focuses on Google’s PageRank algorithm and highlights a recent issue that was brought up. A torrent company, TorrentFreak, claimed that solely based off the country where one initiated the Google search, different results could occur in terms of Pirate Bay’s PageRank. Specifically the website noticed that it could vary from being the […]

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