Issue Information
Impact and development of an Open Web Index for open web search
- Michael Granitzer,
- Stefan Voigt,
- Noor Afshan Fathima,
- Martin Golasowski,
- Christian Guetl,
- Tobias Hecking,
- Gijs Hendriksen,
- Djoerd Hiemstra,
- Jan Martinovič,
- Jelena Mitrović,
- Izidor Mlakar,
- Stavros Moiras,
- Alexander Nussbaumer,
- Per Öster,
- Martin Potthast,
- Marjana Senčar Srdič,
- Sharikadze Megi,
- Kateřina Slaninová,
- Benno Stein,
- Arjen P. de Vries,
- Vít Vondrák,
- Andreas Wagner,
- Saber Zerhoudi
Web search is a crucial technology for the digital economy. Dominated by a few gatekeepers focused on commercial success, however, web publishers have to optimize their content for these gatekeepers, resulting in a closed ecosystem of search ...
The influence of knowledge type and source reputation on preferences for website or video search results
Searching for information on the web has become an essential task in our society. This article presents a preregistered experimental study that investigates how the knowledge dimension (conceptual, procedural) and relevance of displaying ...
Virtuous search: A framework for intellectual virtue in online search
This paper presents a conceptual framework for the intellectual virtues in the context of online search. Intellectual virtues are dispositions and skills that enable good thinking and wise reasoning, such as intellectual humility and ...
Dark sides of artificial intelligence: The dangers of automated decision‐making in search engine advertising
With the growing use of artificial intelligence, search engine providers are increasingly pushing advertisers to use automated bidding strategies based on machine learning. Such automated decision‐making systems leave advertisers in the dark ...
Is googling risky? A study on risk perception and experiences of adverse consequences in web search
Search engines, such as Google, have a considerable impact on society. Therefore, undesirable consequences, such as retrieving incorrect search results, pose a risk to users. Although previous research has reported the adverse outcomes of web ...
Towards improving user awareness of search engine biases: A participatory design approach
- Monica Lestari Paramita,
- Maria Kasinidou,
- Styliani Kleanthous,
- Paolo Rosso,
- Tsvi Kuflik,
- Frank Hopfgartner
Bias in news search engines has been shown to influence users' perceptions of a news topic and contribute to the polarisation of society. As a result, there is a need for news search engines that increase user awareness of biases in the search ...
Making the invisible visible: Critical discourse analysis as a tool for search engine research
Like information science more broadly, search engine research has largely been fragmented into two factions: system‐oriented and user‐oriented studies. This limits our capacity for answering some fundamental questions surrounding an integral—...
The elusive search engine: How search engine use is reflected in survey reports
The overall aim of this article is to contribute to a research‐based understanding of the increasing invisibility of web search engines in society and to discussions about the potential impact of this invisibility. It examines how search engine ...
Shaping information and knowledge on climate change technologies: A cross‐country qualitative analysis of carbon capture and storage results on Google search
Commercial search engines play a central role in shaping, defining, and promoting the information people have access to in contemporary societies. This is particularly true when it comes to emergent technologies, for which there is often limited ...
