Are you using search engine data in your research – or are you interested in doing so? Join us for the first RAT community meeting, including talks, tutorials and a poster session! With the Result Assessment Tool (RAT) you can easily collect results from different search engines, let participants assess the results and analyse your findings. More information on RAT: https://searchstudies.org/research/rat/ Friday, 8 September 2023, 10 am - 6 pm Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany The full programme is now online! TECHNICAL TALKS - What is RAT and how can you use it? - The Query Sampler - The SEO Classifier SHOWCASES - The Rammstein Debate as Represented in Search Engines (Sebastian Sünkler and Sebastian Schultheiß, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Greyzone Medicines and Black Hat SEO (Kristofer Söderström and Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden) - Mapping politics of exclusion on Google search (Ov Cristian Norocel, Lund University, Sweden) - How Candidates Use SEO in Political Elections (Kay Hinz, Argus Data Insights, Germany) TUTORIAL: How to RAT? A Hands-On Tutorial to Designing and Conducting Studies With RAT In the tutorials, small groups will explore the functionality of RAT and design their own studies. You will be introduced to creating a study, collecting data from search engines, and analysing the results. POSTER SESSION Have a first look at exciting add-ons to the RAT software that allow automatic analysis of search results. Furthermore, there will be posters presenting even more studies based on search results. Posters include: - Googling for diseases: Exploring source types, SEO measures, and information quality of health-related search results (Sebastian Schultheiß, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) - Imprint crawler – a web crawler specialized in the automatic imprint extraction of websites under consideration of the German Legislation (Marius Messer, University of Duisburg-Essen) - Measuring the Readability of Web Documents (Mohamed Elnaggar, University of Duisburg-Essen) - Sentiment analysis for search result snippets (Nimesh Ghimire, University of Duisburg-Essen) - Comparison of Results Shown by Different Search Engines for Climate-Related Topics (Tuhina Kumar; University of Duisburg-Essen) - What does Google recommend when you want to compare insurance offerings? – A study investigating source distribution in Google's top search results (Sebastian Sünkler; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) - EI-Logger Plug-In: Explicit and implicit Logger for elicitation of search engine user’s data (Hossam Al Mustafa; University of Duisburg-Essen) - A Comparison of Source Distribution and Result Overlap in Web Search Engines (Helena Häußler; Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) We hope you're able to join us! Registration is free! (Please note that this is an in-person event in Hamburg, Germany) https://www.eventbrite.de/e/rat-community-meeting-tickets-648095941407 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Interim professor (computer science), University of Duisburg-Essen Professor (information research & information retrieval), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences T +49 40 428 75-3621 dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de HOCHSCHULE FÜR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN HAMBURG Fakultät Design, Media und Information Department Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk