Chapter: Europe

Are you using search engine data in your research – or are you interested in doing so? Join us for the first RAT community meeting, including talks, tutorials and a poster session!

With the Result Assessment Tool (RAT) you can easily collect results from different search engines, let participants assess the results and analyse your findings. More information on RAT: https://searchstudies.org/research/rat/

Friday, 8 September 2023, 10 am - 6 pm
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

The full programme is now online!


TECHNICAL TALKS
- What is RAT and how can you use it?
- The Query Sampler
- The SEO Classifier

SHOWCASES
- The Rammstein Debate as Represented in Search Engines (Sebastian Sünkler and Sebastian Schultheiß, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Greyzone Medicines and Black Hat SEO (Kristofer Söderström and Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden)
- Mapping politics of exclusion on Google search (Ov Cristian Norocel, Lund University, Sweden)
- How Candidates Use SEO in Political Elections (Kay Hinz, Argus Data Insights, Germany)

TUTORIAL: How to RAT? A Hands-On Tutorial to Designing and Conducting Studies With RAT
In the tutorials, small groups will explore the functionality of RAT and design their own studies. You will be introduced to creating a study, collecting data from search engines, and analysing the results.

POSTER SESSION
Have a first look at exciting add-ons to the RAT software that allow automatic analysis of search results. Furthermore, there will be posters presenting even more studies based on search results. Posters include:
 - Googling for diseases: Exploring source types, SEO measures, and information quality of health-related search results (Sebastian Schultheiß, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
- Imprint crawler – a web crawler specialized in the automatic imprint extraction of websites under consideration of the German Legislation (Marius Messer, University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Measuring the Readability of Web Documents (Mohamed Elnaggar, University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Sentiment analysis for search result snippets (Nimesh Ghimire, University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Comparison of Results Shown by Different Search Engines for Climate-Related Topics (Tuhina Kumar; University of Duisburg-Essen)
- What does Google recommend when you want to compare insurance offerings? – A study investigating source distribution in Google's top search results (Sebastian Sünkler; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
- EI-Logger Plug-In: Explicit and implicit Logger for elicitation of search engine user's data (Hossam Al Mustafa; University of Duisburg-Essen)
- A Comparison of Source Distribution and Result Overlap in Web Search Engines (Helena Häußler; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
  

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Dirk Lewandowski
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Hamburg
Germany
dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de
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