Search as News Curator: The Role of Google in Shaping Attention to News Information

Daniel Trielli, N. Diakopoulos
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This paper presents an algorithm audit of the Google Top Stories box, a prominent component of search engine results and powerful driver of traffic to news publishers. As such, it is important in shaping user attention towards news outlets and topics. By analyzing the number of appearances of news article links we contribute a series of novel analyses that provide an in-depth characterization of news source diversity and its implications for attention via Google search. We present results indicating a considerable degree of source concentration (with variation among search terms), a slight exaggeration in the ideological skew of news in comparison to a baseline, and a quantification of how the presentation of items translates into traffic and attention for publishers. We contribute insights that underscore the power that Google wields in exposing users to diverse news information, and raise important questions and opportunities for future work on algorithmic news curation.
搜索作为新闻管理员:谷歌在塑造对新闻信息的关注中的作用
本文提出了一种算法审计的谷歌热门故事框,一个突出的组成部分的搜索引擎结果和强大的驱动程序的流量新闻出版商。因此,它在塑造用户对新闻媒体和话题的关注方面非常重要。通过分析新闻文章链接的出现数量,我们提供了一系列新颖的分析,这些分析提供了新闻来源多样性的深入特征及其通过谷歌搜索对注意力的影响。我们给出的结果表明了相当程度的来源集中(在搜索词之间存在差异),与基线相比,新闻的意识形态偏差略有夸大,并且量化了项目的呈现如何转化为流量和发布者的关注。我们提供的见解强调了谷歌在向用户展示各种新闻信息方面所拥有的力量,并为未来的算法新闻策划工作提出了重要的问题和机会。
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