With the exponential growth and improved efficiency of search engines such as Google and Yahoo, venues other than basic web pages need to be searched. Keeping this sentiment in mind, newer niche-based web search engines are being created such as Technorati, Icerocket, and Feedster. All three of the previously mentioned niche-based search engines search blog […]

 
In class, we discussed the fact that if certain restaurants get mentioned by many people, you discover that some of these people had mentioned the majority of these highly-recommended restaurants when you asked them about new restaurants. Since you now know that these people have valuable information in terms of restaurant selection, you trust their […]

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Evolution, through survival of the “fittest”, is commonly thought of as a very harsh process that results in zero-sum outcomes - one organism thrives at the expense of another. It is also commonly thought that after billions of years of evolution, current organisms are highly efficient at survival.

The observation of cooperation among organisms […]

Never Ending Irregular Wars and Information: A Conjecture
http://conflictoaprendizaje.univalle.edu.co/Articulos/never.pdf
In this article, Boris Salazar introduces an argument in which he describes how “irregular wars” (versus conventional wars) fundamentally alters the underlying social structure, and disallows the flow of information, resulting in the “never ending wars” conjecture.
The Department of Defense defines irregular warfare as:
“Warfare that seeks to […]

The article discusses how search engine algorithms such as PageRank may not be effective for searching blog contents. PageRank works by assigning a value between 0 and 10 to represent the “weighting” of each webpage. The value, calculated from the number of in-flowing links and the popularity or authority of those links has been successful […]

As of late, internet social networks have been an influential aspect of our lives on and off the web. Social networks such as Facebook and Myspace have connected its users like no other social networks have before. They have influenced the way advertisers grab potential consumers and have changed the way people interact. Recently, a […]

The most lauded and respected of all Internet companies has joined the ranks of corporations suffering attacks from privacy loving “Netizens”. Google has announced that it will be initiating a new advertising program that will use past browsing history in addition to the current pages viewed to provide relevant “interest-based” ads. Traditionally, Google analyzed […]

            Modern economic theory has found a new field regarding pervasive social phenomenon. One of the examples is the information cascades which help to understand the real issues, such as the real estate bubbles and the financial crisis. The information cascades is simply (as in the textbook) “flowing the crowd.”
The article by Sunstein described […]

In this paper, they discuss some of the history behind GSP as well as do some experimentation and economic theory on the subject.
They show some of the differences between Internet advertising and most auction markets. Bidding takes place continuously, meaning there is no obvious set begin and end time and bidders can […]

Microsoft has historically utilized the network effect to dominate the home computer market. As more people used Microsoft’s operating systems, more software was developed to run on those operating systems, which made more people buy Microsoft products. However, now that the internet makes software more universally accessible to computers running different operating systems, Google is […]