Google’s new search algorithm BERT
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/google-just-announced-a-major-search-algorithm-change-that-users-will-probably-love-and-some-businesses-may-absolutely-hate.html Google’s most recent update to its search algorithm is the release of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). BERT is a tool that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to produce better results when a question is asked. The traditional Google search algorithm displays page results based on keywords detected in the query and would […]
Information Cascades as a Source of Fake News
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 The Spread of True and False News Online The article talks about the “world wide concern over false news” that is becoming a more prevalent and significant issue that society has been starting to become more aware of. Even with social media, widely used platform for networking, we often see lots of issues of […]
Information Networks in Various Social Media Platforms
https://www.aodmarketing.com/reddit-marketing-reddit-facebook-other-social-media/ This article compares Reddit to other social media platforms like Facebook. It begins by noting that users on Reddit typically do not make accounts associated with their real life identities. On other platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, users typically use images of themselves as their profile pictures, and add the “friends” that […]
NFL Drafts and Auctioning
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704133804575198154038855396 This article goes on to talk about the NFL draft and how much of a shamble it can be at times. The league will give its worst teams the best picks to leverage out the playing field that is often created in the NFL. A big issue with the draft, is that teams […]
Problem with SEO
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/seo-expertise-in-1-area-can-lead-to-weaknesses-in-others In the current digital age, businesses ranging from small D2C (Direct-to-customer) brands to large corporates all have recognized the importance of digital presence and thus have started incorporating a variety of digital strategies, including SEO and ad placement on search results and social media. SEO, which stands for search engine optimization, is essentially the […]
Crawl data analysis of 2 billion links from 90 million domains offer glimpse into today’s web
https://searchengineland.com/crawl-data-analysis-of-2-billion-edges-from-90-million-domains-offers-glimpse-into-todays-web-323417 For researchers, the way to determine a website’s presence on the web is mainly through PageRank. It is still popular and well-known because of its success in showing the distribution of edges, which are links from host to another. The Internet is such a large web that there were about 90 million hosts and […]
Google’s PageRank Patent Has Just Expired. Here’s What Happens Now.
In this article, the author explains how the original PageRank patent, developed and owned by Google, has expired on January 9th, 2019. In the United States, patents only expire after twenty years. In the case of PageRank, it expired on January of 2019 since it was created exactly twenty years before that. PageRank, which we […]
Innovative entertainment + auction platform
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/business/economy/15view.html Most readers of game theory and auctions have heard about the dollar auction game. Lot of business school professors often conduct such an auction for say a $20-dollar bill. Students tend to auction in increments of a single dollar. But the catch is that even the second highest bidder must be the amount […]
Decoding the World’s Largest E-commerce Search Engine: Amazon’s A9 Algorithm
https://moz.com/blog/amazon-vs-google Amazon, with 54 percent of product searches taking place, is the world’s largest search engine for e-commerce. Technically, Amazon is the second largest search engine in the world excluding Google. Compared with Google, Amazon asks very different questions to deliver the right results to the user: “What product is the searcher most likely to […]
Game Theory and Vaccines
http://theconversation.com/game-theory-can-help-prevent-disease-outbreaks-102934 This article discussed the unsuspecting game theory example: vacations. Vaccines are known to prevent, even eradicate, many diseases and therefore people are encouraged to get them. Not only will it greatly reduce the chance of you getting sick, but getting a vaccine will also ensure that you can not spread the disease. While […]
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