This paper provides an overview of documentary languages applied to the information discovery service called EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), created and maintained by EBSCO (United States of America). The focus of the present paper is exclusively to evaluate EDS discovery system and how it adopts documentary languages. The goal of a discovery system...
Human dignity is a broad concept. Summarizing it in a few lines is an arduous task. On the contrary, identifying the causes that limit its scope is much easier. Among them, a fundamental role is played by the criminal process that restricts the most basic human rights: freedom, privacy, home, correspondence, reputation, image. The stigma of being a...
Literature reviews are an essential part of research, and they require a significant amount of time and effort to be able to search through the millions of academic papers both online and physically. However, with the advent of AI-powered search engines, the process of conducting literature reviews has become more efficient and effective. AI-powere...
We present the first extensive measurement of the privacy properties of the advertising systems used by privacy-focused search engines. We propose an automated methodology to study the impact of clicking on search ads on three popular private search engines which have advertising-based business models: StartPage, Qwant, and DuckDuckGo, and we compa...
[ES] El marketing digital permite dar visibilidad a la empresa y a los productos y servicios que ofrece a través de internet, con el fin de atraer al público objetivo. El marketing digital ofrece un gran abanico de posibilidades para desarrollar la presencia online de las empresas. Una herramienta clave es el Search Engine Optimization (SEO), que s...
Background: A good search strategy is essential for a successful systematic literature study. Historically, database searches have been the norm, which has later been complemented with snowball searches. Our conjecture is that we can perform even better searches if combining the two search approaches, referred to as a hybrid search strategy. Object...
Published in Journal of Computational Social Science
In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of web search behaviors in Switzerland and Germany. For this aim, we rely on a combination of web tracking data and survey data collected over a period of 2 months from users in Germany ( n = 558) and Switzerland ( n = 563). We find that web search accounts for 13% of all desktop browsing, with the...
Published in Journalism (London, England)
Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results that are biased toward the interests of Russia’s ruling elites. Prior research, however, audited Yandex’s algorithms largely within Russia. In contrast, this study is the f...
Depuis quelques années, la quantité de données géographiques disponibles sur le web n'a cessé d'augmenter. Cela est notamment dû non seulement aux spécificités propres aux données géographiques qui rendent leur utilisation indispensable dans plusieurs domaines d'application comme la météorologie, l'agriculture, prévention des risques naturels etc.,...
In an increasingly connected society, the production of digital content on social networks, blogs and other platforms has shown exponential growth in terms of information production. This study presents how the use of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques can contribute to the process of ranking in search engines and aims to identify which Se...
