Fairness in e-Commerce Search

Goodreads star ratings can be misleading as measures of "book quality," and research from Hannes Rosenbusch suggests that for many professionally published books, differences between readers often matter more than differences between books. The episode also explores how to model ...  Show more

Today's guest is Divyabh Mishra, Founder & CEO at CrowdANALYTIX. In conversation with Emerj's CEO Daniel Faggella, Divyabh talks about the business challenges in the eCommerce space when it comes to collecting and ensuring the accuracy of product data in high-volume product da ...

On today’s show we’re talking about what’s wrong with today’s internet.

You might be wondering why we are talking about technology on a real estate podcast. It’s because the internet is the primary source of information for real estate investors and developers. We’ve co ...

We put a lot of trust into online shopping: sharing our names, addresses, and handing over money. In return, we have faith that the purchased item appears at our doorstep in a few days or weeks. That trust didn’t come easily. In 1995, we took our first steps out of the brick and ...  Show more

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. She's the author of a best-selling book called Algorithms of Oppression. Today she talks to Scott about how commercial search engines have algorithm ...