Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs in Auction
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/banksy-renames-shredded-painting-love-is-in-the-bin-as-work-sells-to-winning-bidder-after-a-week-of-negotiation Girl With a Balloon (2006) by the famous anonymous artist Banksy was auctioned off at Sotheby’s Art Auction in London for £1.04m. Promptly after the gavel came down closing the auction, the art piece appeared to fall through the frame and partially shred itself before being carried off by employees. At first, collectors and […]
The Writer’s Dilemma with Early PageRank
https://www.copyblogger.com/page-rank-vs-author-rank/ Google’s meteoric rise to the top of the search-engine industry can be mainly attributed to its development of the PageRank algorithm. Named after Google’s co-founder Larry Page, the algorithm works by ranking webpages by the number of links that point to them and the importance of the pages that are linking. While this […]
Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
In her paper “Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery,” Latanya Sweeney discusses findings of statistically significant discrimination in ad delivery based on searches of racially associated personal names. She found that some online ads suggestive of arrest records appear more often for black identifying names than white identifying names among a sample of racially associated names. […]
Manipulation of Page Rank
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-pagerank/ This article talks about how Google removed its PageRank score display in 2016. Ever since the PageRank score became displayed on each website, many SEOs have become obsessed with using the PageRank as the ranking factor for the website. As a result, people started to buy and sell “high PR” links to increase […]
Winning online auctions in the age of sniping
Auction sniping is the practice, in a timed online auction, of placing a bid likely to exceed the current highest bid, as late as possible, usually seconds before the end of the auction, giving other bidders no time to outbid the sniper(wikipedia). Many have always wondered why eBay allows this, claiming it is unfair practice […]
Google’s Second Price Auctions
https://www.wired.com/2009/05/nep-googlenomics/?currentPage=all Adwords was Google’s key to 21 billion dollars in 2008 and its been there formula to gaining there ad revenue since its inaugural year in 2002. It was first implemented into Google by Hal Varian. Prior to this, Google had two kinds of advertisements that could be bought: Ads at the top of […]
Twitter’s quality adjusted bid
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/11/10/twitter-quality-score This article describes the algorithm behind how twitter advertisements are chosen to be displayed. The algorithm takes into the account the values bade by the auctioneers (advertisers) but also another value deemed the quality score. This quality score takes is the result of three main factors: Resonance (how much users engage with the […]
Matching markets in the digital age
Article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6289/1056 In lecture, we emphasized the idea of matching markets. We define a market whereby sets of buyers and sellers (represented as nodes) are paired with each other in a good-exchange relationship. In order to create a perfect matching we began by looking at preferences represented as links between buyers and sellers based on the […]
An Improved PageRank Method based on Genetic Algorithm for Web Search
This article talks about the improvement of the PageRank method by using genetic algorithms for Web Search. The trend of using genetic algorithms seems to continue with network analysis. The article begins by explaining how traditional search engines get their catalogue. They have robots that “crawl” through the internet, gathering information as they go. Another […]
A Censored Search Engine
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/china-google-censored-search-engine.html In 2010, Google withdrew from China in order to protest the country’s censorship and online hacking. Many praised Google in its efforts to promote and preserve internet freedom and the freedom of information. However, within the past year Google has been developing a censored search engine for China that would filter search terms […]
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