Month: December 2020

Expanding our (research) toolkit By Peter Chonka, Stephanie Diepeveen, and Yidnekachew Haile (17 December 2020) Part 1 of this pair of blogposts highlighted problematic Autocomplete ‘predictions’ of Google search engine for sample keywords in Somali and Amharic languages. We explained Autocomplete as a tool and highlighted some of the many unknowns of its interaction with …

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Problematic ‘predictions’? By Peter Chonka, Stephanie Diepeveen, and Yidnekachew Haile (8 December 2020) Search engines are an integral part of our digital lives that we use to retrieve useful information out of a seemingly limitless sea of online data. However, research has shown that search engines like Google’s are not ‘neutral’ windows onto what’s simply …

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