Algorithmic power and East African languages: questioning search engine Autocomplete (PART 2)
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 …