Abstract
Search engines are the most utilized tools to access information on
the Web. The success of large companies such as Google owes to
their capacity to conduct users through the vast troves of
knowledge and information online. Recently, the concept of
search as research has been used to shift the research focus from
workings of information-seeking tools towards methods for the
social study of Web and particularly the social meanings of engine
results. In this paper, we present SaR-Web, a web search tool that
provides an automatic means to carry out search as research on
the Web. It compares the results of same (translated) queries
across search engine language domains, thereby enabling crosslinguistic
and cross-cultural comparisons of results. SaR-Web
outputs enable the comparative study of cultural mores as well as
societal associations and concerns, interpreted through search
engine results.
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