A comparison of source distribution and result overlap in web search engines

Yagci, Nurce; Sünkler, Sebastian; Häußler, Helena Rosalia; Lewandowski, Dirk

doi:10.1002/pra2.758

Verlagslink DOI:	10.1002/pra2.758
Titel:	A comparison of source distribution and result overlap in web search engines
Sprache:	Englisch
Autorenschaft:	Yagci, Nurce Sünkler, Sebastian Häußler, Helena Rosalia Lewandowski, Dirk
Schlagwörter:	Google; search engine; source comparison; web scraping; Web search
Erscheinungsdatum:	14-Okt-2022
Verlag:	Wiley
Zeitschrift oder Schriftenreihe:	Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Zeitschriftenband:	59
Zeitschriftenausgabe:	1
Anfangsseite:	346
Endseite:	357
Zusammenfassung:	When it comes to search engines, users generally prefer Google. Our study aims to find the differences between the results found in Google compared to other search engines. We compared the top 10 results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Metager, using 3,537 queries generated from Google Trends from Germany and the US. Google displays more unique domains in the top results than its competitors. Wikipedia and news websites are the most popular sources overall. With some top sources dominating search results, the distribution of domains is also consistent across all search engines. The overlap between Google and Bing is always under 32%, while Metager has a higher overlap with Bing than DuckDuckGo, going up to 78%. This study shows that the use of another search engine, especially in addition to Google, provides a wider variety in sources and might lead the user to find new perspectives.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12738/15238
ISSN:	2373-9231
Begutachtungsstatus:	Diese Version hat ein Peer-Review-Verfahren durchlaufen (Peer Review)
Einrichtung:	Department Information und Medienkommunikation Fakultät Design, Medien und Information
Dokumenttyp:	Zeitschriftenbeitrag
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