Preliminary Bias Results in Search Engines

TL;DR

This study compares Bing and Google search engines on controversial topics by analyzing sentiment and ranking differences to understand their distinct perspectives.

Contribution

It introduces a method to distinguish search engines' viewpoints using sentiment analysis and ranking comparison on controversial queries.

Findings

Bing and Google show differing sentiment responses.

Search rankings vary significantly between the two engines.

The methods reveal distinct biases in search engine perspectives.

Abstract

This report aims to report my thesis progress so far. My work attempts to show the differences in the perspectives of two search engines, Bing and Google on several selected controversial topics. In this work, we try to make a distinction on the viewpoints of Bing \& Google by using sentiment as well as the ranking of the document returned from these two search engines on the same queries, these queries are related mainly to controversial topics. You can find the methods we used with experimental results below.