Billions of people scroll every day. But what’s actually going viral on social media? 🤷♀️
We asked the platforms for one simple thing: their most-viewed posts.
They all said no 🙃
Help us demand transparency now:
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@algorithmwatch.org @scg-uzh.bsky.social @lessurligneurs.bsky.social
New paper from our group member @nicolo-pagan.bsky.social and colleagues 🤓
We're happy to announce our new collaboration with @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social! Together, we will research the impact of AI on society and democracy with a focus on Switzerland. Stay tuned for results from the project 🚀
Are you a pregnant women, a young parent or soon to become one? This paper led by Desheng Hu (He/Him), is definitely a must read !
Thanks for the shout-out @jlgleason.bsky.social
Web search has changed a lot since early 2000s. Yet, papers still rely on Broder's taxonomy of search intent from that time. It's time to change that! In this paper led by Elsa Lichtenegger we present a new taxonomy, accounting for AI search as well!
Check out our findings from our collaboration with @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social on AI-generated search summaries around the "10 million initiative" in Swiss politics, led by @hcorinna.bsky.social!
A joint work with Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social, Dr. Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social, Elsa Lichtenegger, Robin Christopher Forsberg Aniko Hannak from UZH and colleague Christo Wilson from Northeastern University.
Happy to share that the Social Computing Group received the Best Poster Award at the inaugural UZH.ai Interdisciplinary Lab Exchange & Poster Session 🚀
We presented our research on AI from three angles: user, system, and interaction.
Many thanks to @uzhai.bsky.social for organizing the event.
Mozilla
Social Computing Group - UZH
Social Computing Group - UZH
Social Computing Group - UZH
Social Computing Group - UZH
Social Computing Group - UZH
Social Computing Group - UZH
Aleksandra Urman
Working with web search data? Ever wanted to get access to historical data on what was trending in different locations - beyond the 7 days of such history that Google's Trending Now provides? We've got you covered with the new dataset paper, accepted at ICWSM, preprint here arxiv.org/abs/2603.21871
Aleksandra Urman
GoogleTrendArchive is a comprehensive archive of Google Trending Now data spanning over one year (from November 28, 2024 to January 3, 2026) across 125 countries and 1,358 locations. Unlike Google Tre...
I've been thinking about measuring intent in AI-driven web search and came across the perfect paper! Awesome work @aurman21.bsky.social and co-authors!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Google AI overviews now reach over 2B users worldwide. But how reliable are they on high stakes topics - for instance, pregnancy and baby care?
We have a new paper - led by Desheng Hu, now accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social - exploring that and finding many issues
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12920
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Zusammen mit @scg-uzh.bsky.social haben wir untersucht, wie die KI-generierten Antworten der Suchmaschinen von Google und Bing die Abstimmungsdebatte zur 10-Millionen-Initiative wiedergeben. Die Forschung weist auf Lücken im vorliegenden Gesetzesentwurf zur Regulierung von Online-Plattformen hin.
