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Google Quietly Ramping up Sponsored Search

Google had an advertising revenue of $22.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016.  This was up 17% from the fourth quarter of 2015 and accounted for 87% of Google’s overall revenue.  In 2015, Google accounted for half of the entire $60 billion in revenue generated by the entire digital advertising industry.  Google’s search is… Read more Google Quietly Ramping up Sponsored Search

Storage Wars

Storage Wars is a tv show on A&E that airs the process of auctioning off old storage lockers to professional buyers.   When the rent for a storage locker goes unpaid for 3 months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer in a cash-only auction.  In the show the goal for the… Read more Storage Wars

Friends

  So it turns out that all of our friends actually have more friends than us.  This pattern was discovered in 1991 while studying the nature of social networks.  It is called the friendship paradox.  This strange paradox occurs because of those people who are especially social.  The idea is that only a few people… Read more Friends