- Joshua Simon
- Research Papers
- Search Engine
Importance of User-generated Content to Search Engines
Measuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search Engines
Search engines are some of the most popular and profitable intelligent technologies in existence. Recent research, however, has suggested that search engines may be surprisingly dependent on user-created content like Wikipedia articles to address user information needs. In this paper, we perform a rigorous audit of the extent to which Google leverages Wikipedia and other user-generated content to respond to queries...
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