A Unique Resiliency Among Journal Indicators: Pinski-Narin Influence Weights (IWs) & Self-Citations
Eugene Garfield’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has become the global currency for an academic journal’s scientific standing, serving as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. This metric is derived from the total number of citations of all its eligible articles published during the previous two years divided by the […]
Using PageRank to Predict Sports Game Wins
In class, we discussed PageRank as being like a “fluid” in that it flows throughout the network and collects at the nodes, or pages, that are most important. PageRank operates by quantifying the number and quality of links to a page find out how important that page is. Thus, more important webpages are likely to […]
The Stock Market and Network Structure
Links: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927539810000368 Network, especially network structure, is highly applicable to a lot of common things in the real world. In A network perspective of the stock market, the authors investigate the links between each stock and attempt to construct a large network made up of stocks that influence each other in United States. I will […]
Google Search Monopoly
https://www.wabe.org/google-paid-apple-billions-to-dominate-search-on-iphones-justice-department-says/ The justice department has a lawsuit against google recently for its monopoly power. Justice department says that Google had a deal with apple to have all apple devices have their default engine set as Google’s search engine. Apple also derives 1/5 of their revenue due to their collaboration with Google according to the article. […]
Youtube’s Guide to Search
https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/discovery#strategies-zippy-link-1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpjK416fmKwQK6_REczCaBQ1x1jyHvZAF Youtube has created a set of resources to educate its content creators on how their content gets discovered. Having that understanding can be important to a channel’s success. One of the topics in the series is specifically about how search works on Youtube. The goal of Youtube search, just like Google search, is […]
Consolidation of Instagram and Facebook Messaging
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/30/facebook-introduces-cross-app-communication-between-messenger-and-instagram-plus-other-features/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALDd96lmuw7_Sa7-PtXGLa_bIhDbMykH5aEUR8g8Y6bFdol7nAFO2QZk0hH0btPhlEMhScNlNl5PiVyHqKM7c2xgcBJG5o-TVdwtcDmkI2FtDSLyapysQoZ_86tVyoYKZDKSVYUCquJGkkFCMa-WEKaVUuZuXYoe0IQRr1kIZ2tN Facebook introduced new functionality that allows Instagram and Messenger users to communicate across apps. For example, users can chat with their Facebook friends from the Instagram app, even if their friends are not on Instagram and vice versa. Combined with the additional features introduced to Instagram that mimicks Facebook messenger, the company is pushing […]
The Similarities between Web Search and Instagram’s Feed Ranking Algorithm
Article: https://later.com/blog/how-instagram-algorithm-works/ Due to the dynamic nature and the abundance of information on the web, fulfilling the needs of users as they browse the web is a complex task. In class, we learned about the idea of hubs and authorities as a method for ranking web pages. Pages are […]
How in-rank is used in the real business world: Search Engine Optimization(SEO)
In this article, the author gives a general overview of one of the most powerful digital marketing tool-Search Engine Optimization. The definition for SEO is “an acronym that stands for search engine optimization, which is the process of optimizing your website to get organic, or un-paid, traffic from the search engine results page.”In other words, […]
Google Bid Shading
In September of 2019, Google Ad Manager shifted from Second-Price Auctions to First-Price Auctions for their programmatic advertising. Google’s belief behind making the change, a change that many ad exchanges had made long ago, was that First-Price Auctions would increase total revenue and increase the transparency between all parties involved. It is not a quick […]
Federal Agencies Auction off PPE in the beginning of COVID
This article discusses how federal agencies auctioned off PPE in the months leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic. The General Services Administration, or GSA, is an agency that helps get rid of surplus, unwanted goods of the government. If federal agencies or state governments are not interested in such assets, the GSA auctions them off […]
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