Search Engine Gender Bias

Measuring search engine bias

This paper examines a real-time measure of bias in Web search engines. The measure captures the degree to which the distribution of URLs, retrieved in response to a query, deviates from an ideal or fair distribution for that query. This ideal is approximated by the distribution produced by a collection of search engines. Differences between bias and classical retrieval measures are highlighted ...

Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes

Commercial search engines are now playing an increasingly important role in Web information dissemination and access. Of particular interest to business and national governments is whether the big engines have coverage biased towards the U.S. or other countries. In our study we tested for national biases in three major search engines and found significant differences in their coverage of commer...

A Study of Web Search Engine Bias and its Assessment

Search engine bias has been seriously noticed in recent years. Several pioneering studies have reported that bias perceivably exists even with respect to the URLs in the search results. On the other hand, the potential bias with respect to the content of the search results has not been comprehensively studied. In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional approach to assess both the indexical bia...

Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias.

Search engines have become key media for our scientific, economic, and social activities by enabling people to access information on the web despite its size and complexity. On the down side, search engines bias the traffic of users according to their page ranking strategies, and it has been argued that they create a vicious cycle that amplifies the dominance of established and already popular ...

Data Search Engine Introduction