# Intertemporal Connections Between Query Suggestions and Search Engine Results for Politics Related Queries

## TL;DR

This paper examines the relationship between search engine results and query suggestions for political terms, analyzing their stability and similarity over time using the RBO metric before the 2017 German federal election.

## Contribution

It introduces a comparative analysis of search results and query suggestions for political queries, highlighting their temporal stability and interconnection.

## Key findings

- Query suggestions and search results show varying stability over time.
- Ranked lists for different political terms exhibit measurable similarity.
- The study provides insights into the temporal dynamics of political search data.

## Abstract

This short paper deals with the combination and comparison of two data sources: Search engine results and query suggestions for 16 terms related to political candidates and parties. The data was collected before the federal election in Germany in September 2017 for a period of two months. The rank biased overlap (RBO) statistic is used to measure the similarity of the top-weighted rankings. For each search term and for both the search results and query auto-completions we study the stability of the rankings over time.