Dear colleagues, We would like to highlight the upcoming RAT Webinar in August 2026: What is RAT? The Result Assessment Tool (RAT) is the free open-source research toolbox for collecting, analyzing and evaluating search results, developed by the Search Studies research group at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Join our next RAT Webinar and discover the various features and capabilities of RAT, and how to effectively utilize the tool for your use cases. In this webinar, you will learn the following topics: • Define: Identify relevant search queries and use them for the next steps. • Collect: Automatically gather search results that match your queries from various search systems. • Evaluate: Evaluate the search results with jurors – for relevance or usability, for example. • Analyze: Perform automatic analyses, including Result Overlap as well as SEO and Readability Scorings for various study types. Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026 | Time: 5 - 6 pm (CET) (Find your time here) For registration please visit: http://bit.ly/4oPrM2o We are looking forward to your participation! Best, Oliver Koop Research Associate T +49 40 219 04 3453 oliver.koop@haw-hamburg.de HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty of Computer Science and Digital Society / Search Studies research group Finkenau 35 / Room 270 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany www.haw-hamburg.de / www.searchstudies.org Privacy notice: Information on how we process personal data and your corresponding rights at: www.haw-hamburg.de/datenverarbeitung -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Professor (Information Research & Information Retrieval) Hamburg University of Applied Sciences T +49 40 219042197 dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de HOCHSCHULE FÜR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN HAMBURG Faculty of Computer Science and Digital Society Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany https://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Book a meeting: https://app.usemotion.com/meet/dirk-lewandowski/besprechung Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON): https://searchenginesandsociety.net