What do search engines do? And what should they do? These questions seem relatively simple but are actually urgent social and ethical issues. The influence of Google's search engine is enormous. It does not only shape how Internet users find pages on the World Wide Web, but how we think as individuals, how we collectively remember the past, and how we communicate with one another. This book explores the impact of search engines within contemporary digital culture, focusing on the social, cultural, and philosophical influence of Google. Using case studies like Google's role in the rise of fake news, instances of sexist and misogynistic Autocomplete suggestions, and search queries relating to LGBTQ+ values, it offers original evidence to intervene practically in existing debates. It also addresses other understudied aspects of Google's influence, including the profound implications of its revenue generation for wider society. In doing this, this important book helps to evaluate the real cost of search engines on an individual and global scale.

Google makes improvements to the ranking algorithm nearly every single day. Several of them are minor tweaks; some shake up the SERPs severely. Google's algorithms construe as an enlightened method used for extracting data from its search database and providing the best possible results for a question instantly. Using a mixture of algorithms and various ranking signals, the search engine offers web pages ranked by importance on its SERPs (search engine results pages). Google has only made a couple of changes to its algorithms in its formative days. Today, every year, Google makes thousands of improvements. A majority of these changes are so small that they go unnoticed altogether. Nonetheless, the search engine periodically rolls out significant algorithmic updates which have a huge effect on SERPs such as: · Intrusive interstitials update · Fred · RankBrain · Mobilegeddon · Penguin · Panda · Pigeon · Hummingbird · Page layout algorithm · Payday · Exact match domain (EMD)

Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? How do other web pages always appear at the top? What creates these powerful rankings? And how? The first book ever about the science of web page rankings, Google's PageRank and Beyond supplies the answers to these and other questions and more. The book serves two very different audiences: the curious science reader and the technical computational reader. The chapters build in mathematical sophistication, so that the first five are accessible to the general academic reader. While other chapters are much more mathematical in nature, each one contains something for both audiences. For example, the authors include entertaining asides such as how search engines make money and how the Great Firewall of China influences research. The book includes an extensive background chapter designed to help readers learn more about the mathematics of search engines, and it contains several MATLAB codes and links to sample web data sets. The philosophy throughout is to encourage readers to experiment with the ideas and algorithms in the text. Any business seriously interested in improving its rankings in the major search engines can benefit from the clear examples, sample code, and list of resources provided. Many illustrative examples and entertaining asides MATLAB code Accessible and informal style Complete and self-contained section for mathematics review

Examination Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, , language: English, abstract: An analysis of NestLabs Inc., Google's Smart Home company, and their current business situation is conducted. Internal and external influences are considered. A SWOT Analysis is done and leads in the end to a strategy proposal which NEST should follow in order to improve business in the future.

Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach, Sixth Edition, conveys the insights and knowledge MBA students need to become knowledgeable and active participants in information systems decisions. This text is written to help managers begin to form and point of view of how information systems will help, hinder and create opportunities for their organizations. It is intended to provide a solid foundation of basic concepts relevant to using and managing information.

The 2007 Supplement to the Seventh Edition will feature recent decisions and administrative and legislative developments. Significant caselaw additions include the scope of the Audio Home Recording Act's prohibition on infringement suits, and the compulsory license to make digital audio transmissions of sound recordings, as construed in Atlantic Recording v. XM Satellite Radio (SDNY 2007); the fair use decisions in Blanch v. Koons (2d Cir. 2006) and Clean Flicks of Colo. v. Soderbergh (D. Colo. 2006); and the analysis of Internet service provider safe harbors in Perfect 10 v. CCBill (9th Cir. 2007). The Copyright Office's November 2006 rulemaking on exceptions to anti circumvention protection will also figure prominently, and the Copyright Royalty Board proceeding setting rates for the Section 114(d) compulsory license for digital audio transmission public performances of sound recordings will be noted.