The ethical dimensions of Google autocomplete

Graham, Richard

doi:10.1177/20539517231156518

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“…In their research commentary, Rosie Graham (2023) approaches the issue of the ethical dimensions of Google Autocomplete, highlighting some of the key ethical issues raised by Google's automated suggestion tool that provides potential queries below a user's search box. Much of the discourse surrounding Google's suggestions, or ‘predictions’, has been framed through legal cases in which complex issues can become distilled into black-and-white questions of the law.…”

Section: Contemporary Google Studies: Special Issue Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contemporary Google Studies: Special Issue Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This special issue collects five original research articles (Haider and Rödl, 2023; Mager, 2023; Norocel and Lewandowski, 2023; Ridgway, 2023; Rogers, 2023) and two invited commentaries (Graham, 2023; Rieder, 2022), all of which are devoted to the state of Google critique and intervention by engaging critically with its study as well as prospecting for alternatives. Three contributions focus on search engine bias and discrimination in the context of right-wing extremism (Norocel and Lewandowski, 2023), Google Autocomplete (Graham, 2023), and content moderation (Rogers, 2023). Another three tackle the commercial dynamics of Google, tracing its roots to the first description by Brin and Page (1998) of their PageRank algorithm (Ridgway, 2023), embedding it in the political economy of “technical systems” (Rieder, 2022) and relating it to how search engines contribute to the creation of ignorance (Haider and Rödel, 2023).…”

Section: Contemporary Google Studies: Special Issue Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the contrary, with the integration of more and more data-driven algorithms, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) in both commercial and public domains, algorithmic bias and asymmetries continue to lead to inequalities and social disadvantages (Allhutter et al, 2020; Benjamin, 2019; Eubanks, 2018). Following this line of research, three contributions to the present special issue explicitly focus on search engine bias and discrimination in the context of extreme-right dynamics of exclusion (Norocel and Lewandowski, 2023), the ethical dimensions of Google Autocomplete (Graham, 2023), and Google's balancing of suggesting and moderating offensive content (Rogers, 2023).…”

Section: From Pagerank To “Assetization” Of Audiences: Articulating G...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

2023

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In this piece, which frames the special issue, “The State of Google Critique and Intervention,” we provide an overview of research focusing on Google as an object of critical study, fleshing out the European interventions that actively attempt to address its dominance. The article begins by mapping out key areas of articulating a Google critique, from the initial focus on ranking and profiling to the subsequent scrutiny of user exploitation and competitive imbalance. As such, it situates the contributions to this special issue concerning search engine bias and discrimination, the ethics of Google Autocomplete, Google's content moderation, the commodification of engine audiences and the political economy of technical systems in a broader history of Google criticism. It then proceeds to contextualize the European developments that put forward alternatives and draws attention to legislative efforts to curb the influence of big tech. We conclude by identifying a few avenues for continued critical study, such as Google's infrastructural bundling of generative artificial intelligence with existing products, to emphasize the importance of intervention in the future.

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Section: Contemporary Google Studies: Special Issue Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contemporary Google Studies: Special Issue Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contemporary Google Studies: Special Issue Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

2023

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“…A recently published special issue of Big Data and Society (Mager et al, 2023) focuses on "The State of Google Critique and Intervention." The topics covered in this special issue will sound familiar to information science researchers: Methods for investigating offensive search results (Rogers, 2023), data voids and racism (Norocel & Lewandowski, 2023), how Google creates ignorances on the climate crisis (Haider & Rödl, 2023), ethical concerns associated with Google's auto-complete function (Graham, 2023b), European alternatives to Google (Mager, 2023), as well as conceptual development to nuance the critique "big tech" (Rieder, 2022). In the same year a special issue of Social Media and Society appeared under the title "Semantic Media."…”

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JASIST Special Issue Editorial: Re‐orienting search engine research in information science

Lewandowski,

Haider,

Sundin

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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General web search engines constitute a fundamental part of today's information infrastructure. They have made it possible to find almost anything on the internet, usually by typing a few keywords into an empty search box, but increasingly also by voice recognition. In fact, search engines are now so integrated into devices and practices that they mostly go unnoticed. They have come to shape our lives as well as the society and culture we live in, and our lives and society also affect these information resources in their turn. We use them in school, for work, in planning our holidays, when searching for products and services and in politics-just to name a few important areas.Given the centrality of general web search engines in how and what we know, and in whose products, services and messages get noticed, it is no surprise that content providers are doing everything they can, using various types of search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM), to achieve the highest possible rank and thus visibility on search engine result pages (SERP). When we talk about the uses of search engines, it is important to remember that there are other users than the ones we usually think of. Besides so-called end users or searchers, those who want to be found (content producers) are also users of a search engine, but also there are also those who do not want to be found.The search engine landscape is dominated by a few corporations that have divided the global market more or less along geopolitical lines: broadly speaking, Baidu in China, Yandex in Russia and Google in much of the Western world. Microsoft's Bing is often mentioned as the most important competitor to Google, but this search engine has failed to gain significant market shares. In the United States, Bing has a market share of about 6%, and 3% in Europe (Statcounter, 2023). More competition between search engines is often called for, but this is extremely difficult to achieve within the current political and economic system.

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Trust, but Verify: Students’ Reflections on Using Artificial Intelligence in Written Assignments

Lepik

2024

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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The ethical dimensions of Google autocomplete

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

JASIST Special Issue Editorial: Re‐orienting search engine research in information science

Trust, but Verify: Students’ Reflections on Using Artificial Intelligence in Written Assignments

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