Yes, Google essentially controls the search results with its algorithm and could potentially use its position to affect other companies.
Wonga finished its algorithm, and it is indeed ruthless, rejecting 70% of applicants.
From this, as with Khan Academy, it can begin to hone its adaptive algorithm and learn from the big data set about what works best and for whom.
The Stanford professor first met Brin and Page as students after they approached him looking for advice on what to do with their budding search engine and its PageRank algorithm.
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But StumbleUpon has redesigned its index in recent months and changed the way its ranking algorithm works.
The idea builds on previous work where robots learned to moved objects out of their way, and developing an algorithm that allows them to identify items, and asses its usefulness as a tool.
It simply watched how its users responded to content farmed articles and used those signals to adjust its algorithm accordingly.
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When the algorithm falters, Katango learns why and adapts its approach to do better in the future.
Perhaps Google could open up about its algorithm a little more, and perhaps more education of the public is needed.
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But then two things happened: first, Klout changed its algorithm, resulting in fluctuations and drops in scores that upset many users.
Matt Cutts is a Google associate who gives insights into the company, its search engine algorithm updates, and other SEO issues.
Its algorithm weighs your personal tastes and repurchasing habits against those of your peers: if the code senses you'll be relatively stingy, you'll get a better discount.
Google employs proprietary technology and the details of its ranking algorithm, the process which determines what tops the list when search results are returned, is a closely guarded secret.
Combine that with a data compression algorithm, and a large organization can store all of its information in main memory.
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After all, an algorithm has no need to generate income to support itself and its dependents.
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As YouTube has grown, Kamangar and his team have struggled to keep its algorithm up to speed.
And here was this algorithm that was non-deterministic in its outcome.
Invention has its own algorithm: genius, obsession, serendipity, and epiphany in some unknowable combination.
To encrypt its data, the pen uses an algorithm called Rijndael, which the National Institute for Standards and Technology is planning to use as the Advanced Encryption Standard, which will replace the existing Data Encryption Standard (DES), which is currently being phased out of use.
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