This summer, I attended the summer school of the Digital...

Digital Methods Winter School

By admin, October 25, 2012

This summer, I attended the summer school of the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam. I can say that I have learned a lot there and I believe that anybody who does research on search engines will find some of the DMI tools useful. My comparative study of Google Autocomplete is one example [...]

Googling “9/11”: A cross-cultural comparison of suggestions for a loaded term

By admin, October 1, 2012

In my recent blog post I explained the politics of autocomplete, a feature that suggests queries while they are being typed. We may wonder how this is affected by the trend of creating tailor-made search engine results for specific audiences. How do Google´s suggestions differ from country to country (and language to language)? Methodology and [...]

Esther Weltevrede: “The Globalisation Machine. Reinterpreting engine results”

By tjerk timan, November 16, 2009

Lecture by Esther Weltevrede As a follow up on Martin’s talk, I am going to present some empirical works. These project concern comparing engine results and customization of location. The aim of this study is: 1) Building on Googlization theory and search engine critique. 2) Empirical study. Reinterpreting Google for localization studies. The key question [...]

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Digital Methods Winter School

Googling “9/11”: A cross-cultural comparison of suggestions for a loaded term

Esther Weltevrede: “The Globalisation Machine. Reinterpreting engine results”