Geographical projection of Google's suggestions diversity

Antoine Mazieres (1)

1 CMB - Centre Marc Bloch

This paper describes the current development of a platform that enables anyone to map which suggestions are performed by Google Search when the user is typing, depending on its language preferences which are projected on a world map. In the boundaries of several biases discussed here, this tool would enable social scientists to capture what people are looking for at a given point in time, in different cultural contexts taken into account by Google. The tool presented here is accessible at: https://mazieres.gitlab.io/zeitgeist-borders

Domaines: Web; Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Antoine Mazieres. Geographical projection of Google's suggestions diversity. 3rd GESIS Computational Social Science Winter Symposium, Nov 2016, Cologne, Germany. ⟨hal-01771637⟩