2024
Designing an ethical search engine: the interplay between index and ranking
Workshop „Search Engine Ethics”
University of Birmingham, 13th September 2024, Birmingham, England
Conceptualisations of web search
Workshop „Conceptualisations of Web Search“
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, 11th September 2024, Hamburg, Germany
What results do users see in search engines? Inclusion, exclusion and curation
Sådan styrer techgiganterne og kunstig intelligens din adgang til viden på nettet (How tech giants and artificial intelligence control your access to knowledge online), 3rd April 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark
Result Assessment Tool: Software to Support Studies Based on Data from Search Engines
Sebastian Sünkler, Nurce Yagci, Sebastian Schultheiß, Sonja von Mach, Dirk Lewandowski;
ECIR 2024, 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 24-28th March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_19
2023
Result Assessment Tool: A Software Toolkit for Conducting Studies Based on Search Results
Sebastian Sünkler, Nurce Yagci, Daniela Sygulla, Sonja von Mach, Sebastian Schultheiß, Dirk Lewandowski;
ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology) Annual Meeting, 27-31 Oktober 2023, London
Do users trust search engines? And if so, why? Developing a trust measure and applying it in an experiment
CHIIR ‘23: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
March 19-23, 2023, Austin, Texas
How search engine marketing influences user knowledge gain: Development and empirical testing of an information search behavior model
CHIIR ‘23: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
March 19-23, 2023, Austin, Texas
2022
From Knowing to Showing: Using Marking Tasks to Demonstrate Information Literacy in Practice
Helena Häußler, Sebastian Schultheiß, Sebastian Sünkler & Dirk Lewandowski
ASIS&T 24-Hour Global Conference
04/27/2022
A Comparison of Source Distribution and Result Overlap in Web Search Engines
Nurce Yagci, Sebastian Sünkler, Helena Häußler & Dirk Lewandowski
85TH Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology
October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA
How data science approaches can complement search engine research information science
University of Borås
September 05, 2022, Borås, Sweden
Does Search Engine Optimization come along with high-quality content?: A comparison between optimized and non-optimized health-related web pages
Sebastian Schultheiß & Helena Häußler
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’22)
March 14–18, 2022, Regensburg, Germany
Schultheiß, S.; Häußler, H.; Lewandowski, D. (2022). Does Search Engine Optimization come along with high-quality content?: A comparison between optimized and non-optimized health-related web pages. CHIIR ’22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 123–134. https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505811 
2021
SEO Effect: The Effect of Search Engine Optimization on Search Results: The SEO Effect Project
Sebastian Schultheiß & Sebastian Sünkler
OSSYM 2021 – 3rd International Open Search Symposium
October 11-13, 2021, Online
The influence of search engine optimization on Google’s results: A multi-dimensional approach for detecting SEO
Dirk Lewandowski, Sebastian Sünkler & Nurce Yagci
WebSci ’21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021
June, 2021, Online
Lewandowski, D.; Sünkler, S.; Yagci, N. (2021): The Influence of search engine optimization on Google’s results: A multidimensional approach for detecting SEO. 13th ACM Web Science Conference, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447535.3462479
How an Open Web Index could help solve the “search problem”
Nordic AI Popup live In search of search – making search engines visible
May 26, 2021, Lund, Sweden
Search Studies: Information science, computer science, and beyond
University of Borås
May 03, 2021, Borås, Sweden
2020
What we (don’t) know about search engines
Lund University
October 22, 2020, Lund, Sweden
2019
The Need for and fundamentals of an Open Web Index
First International Symposium on Open Search Technology
October 23, 2019, Garching, Germany
In a World of Biased Search Engines
Keynote at the 18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research
September 25, 2019, Katowice, Poland
A Call for Fair Search Engines
ASIST European Chapter Event „Search Engines and Information Retrieval“
April 26, 2019, Hamburg, Germany
2018
Analysing search engine data on socially relevant topics
GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
September 19, 2018, Cologne, Germany
2017
Does it matter which search engine is used?
A user study using post-task relevance judgments
Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology
November 01, 2017, Crystal City, VA, USA
Are Ads on Google search engine results pages labeled clearly enough?
Dirk Lewandowski, Sebastian Sünkler & Friederike Kerkmann
ISI 2017
March 13, 2017, Berlin, Germany
Sünkler, S.; Kerkmann, F. (2016). Projektbericht zum Studienprojekt „Ok Google… The End of Search as we know it. Sprachgesteuerte Suche im Test“. Projektabschlussbericht, HAW Hamburg, Deutschland. PDF
2014
Alternatives to Google
KDW Symposium „Is Google enough?“ – Lund University
March 18, 2014, Lund, Sweden
2013
Why we need an independent index of the Web
Society of the Query Conference
November 07, 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
Ordinary Search Engine Users Assessing Difficulty, Effort and Outcome for Simple and Complex Search Tasks
Georg Singer, Ulrich Norbisrath & Dirk Lewandowski
Fourth Information Interaction on Context Symposium
August 23, 2012, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2011
The Influence of Commercial Intent of Search Results on Their Perceived Relevance
iConference 2011
February 11, 2011, Seattle, USA
2009
Measuring the quality of web search engines
Tartu University
September 14, 2009, Tartu, Estonia
How can library materials be ranked in the OPAC?
9th International Bielefeld Conference
February 04, 2009, Bielefeld, Germany
2008
Search engine user behaviour: How can users be guided to quality content?
EUSIDIC Bloomsbury Conference – Beyond Discovery
March 31, 2008, London, England
2006
Exploring the Academic Invisible Web
8th International Bielefeld Conference
February 08, 2006, Bielefeld, Germany