As part of our research on the geography of search engines, we coded a new R tool, including ideas from my colleague Simon Scheider (Universiteit Utrecht). Google Trends is a great source of "big data" about search behaviour at a large scale, but it limits the number of query terms to 5. Because of the … Continue reading [R tool] Google Trends comparator for 5+ terms
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How search engines represent conspiracy theories
My paper on the representation of conspiracy theories on search engines opens the 2015 July issue of First Monday. The paper answers the following questions: (i) what type of content is returned by search engines when searching for conspiracy theories? (ii) what is the bias of the search results towards the conspiratorial, neutral, or debunking Web … Continue reading How search engines represent conspiracy theories