An adaptation of PageRank – EdgeRank
Article source: http://edgerank.net/ EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Now Has Close To 100K Weight Factors An interesting application and variation of the PageRank algorithm implemented by Google in ranking search results is the EdgeRank algorithm Facebook used to decide what is displayed on each user’s newsfeed. Both algorithms accomplish the same principle goal: […]
Market Clearing Prices in Economics
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/clearingprice.asp During our studies of market clearing prices in class, we had multiple buyers and multiple sellers. We would adjust the prices until the market was cleared. We increased prices that had too many interested buyers in the preferred sellers graph. This process is similar to how a Supply and Demand chart is used in […]
The 2016 Presidential Race: An Example of the Prisoner’s Dilemma
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/what-game-theory-tells-us-about-donald-trump-157903/ According to Michael Wolraich at The Rolling Stones, the 2016 Presidential Race between Clinton and Trump can be analyzed through the scope of Game Theory. This race was unique in that the amount of overt verbal attacks levied against each opposing candidate was heightened. This cycle likely began with a small, rather normative attack […]
Steps for new businesses to increase Google PageRank
In lecture, we talked about how Google search engine works. PageRank is something that is used to rank the websites in their search engines. Since a lot of people rely on the information Google offers for different types of business, it is very important for new businesses to figure out ways to increase their […]
Ranking In Signed Networks
The well-known Page Rank algorithm is a commonly used tool to rank webpages. On a high level, it determines a new rank for a page based on the current ranks of all of the pages that point to it. You then iteratively compute new ranks based on old ranks until the algorithm terminates. This computes […]
Are Search Engines Doing Everything They Can to Prevent Click Fraud?
A pay-per-click approach to ad pricing initially seems to be the most fair, reasonable way for search engines to charge their advertisers. But what happens if these clicks are not legitimate? In many cases, an advertiser’s competition may click (either automatically or manually) many times on a particular ad in order to exhaust their competitor’s […]
Saudi Relations
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/21/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-international-pressure-builds-intl/index.html International Relations is a topic that lends itself well to an analysis using theories from networks. On the forefront of global politics is the recent death of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Turkey. Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist known for criticizing the Saudi government, especially Prince Mohammad bin Salman and King […]
Second Price Auctions Executed Poorly
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Research/Ugrad/selene_xu.pdf A Second Price Auction is an auction in which the person who places the highest bid on an item wins the item, but only has to pay the price of the second highest bid. Many different sites in varying industries use this type of auction. One obvious example is eBay. While bidding on eBay, […]
Google Map’s New Cost-per-Click Ad Service
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2016/06/01/google-maps-local-search-ads This past summer, Google decided to revamp their ad service and introduce new “Promoted Pins” into their Maps platform. Theses promoted pins will show up on Google Maps displays, primarily on mobile devices, and will recommend local spots for the users to spot at, based on what they are searching. Google’s algorithm to […]
Google BrainRank, A Human Solution to A Human Problem
https://www.techgenyz.com/2018/02/09/google-rankbrain-seo-need-know/ RankBrain is a web search algorithm first launched by Google in 2015 and now gradually spreads its application in almost every query entry into Google. It particularly targets words that have never been queried before, by assigning a mathematical vector to each keyword and mapping out the relationship between the unknown search words and […]
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