ABSTRACT
Access to diverse perspectives nurtures an informed citizenry. Google and Bing have emerged as the duopoly that largely arbitrates which English language documents are seen by web searchers. We present our empirical study over the search results produced by Google and Bing that shows a large overlap. Thus, citizens may not gain different perspectives by simultaneously probing them for the same query. Fortunately, our study also shows that by mining Twitter data one can obtain search results that are quite distinct from those produced by Google and Bing. Additionally, the users found those results to be quite informative.
- R. Agrawal, B. Golshan, and E. Papalexakis. A study of distinctiveness in web results of two search engines. In 24th international conference on World Wide Web, Web Science Track. ACM, May 2015. Google ScholarDigital Library
- R. Agrawal, B. Golshan, and E. Papalexakis. Whither social networks for web search? In 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, August 2015. Google ScholarDigital Library
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Overlap Between Google and Bing Web Search Results!: Twitter to the Rescue?
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