Sample studies - Search Studies Research Group

See studies that have been conducted with the help of RAT. The sample studies show how flexible RAT can be used for a variety of study types.

A Comparison of Source Distribution and Result Overlap in Web Search Engines

This study compared the top 10 results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Metager, using 3,537 queries. RAT was used to collect data and compute overlaps.

Swedish Google search queries on wind power

This study investigated wind power-related search queries from Google regarding themes and comprehension of the topic. RAT was used to generate relevant search queries.

Does it matter which search engine is used?

This study compared Google and Bing in the case where users work freely on pre-defined tasks. RAT was used to collect relevance judgments from 64 users.