Wanted: browsers to help uncover the truth about online search result bias
by Josh Taylor from on (#5MMD9)
Researchers are looking for volunteers for a study into whether search results really are influenced by previous browsing history
Australians are being asked to share their internet browsers with a new research project that aims to find out whether people's search results on hot button topics vary wildly depending on who they are.
Amid ongoing concern that the personalisation of search results leads to people only being presented results that align with their existing views on everything from politics to vaccines and lockdowns, researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society have launched a new project to collect search results from thousands of Australians to see how they differ.
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