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PowerMeter is a browser extension that runs subtle randomized experiments on a participant’s search results in order to estimate the performative power of online search.
An Engine Not a Camera: Measuring Performative Power of Online Search
We published a first blueprint on how to estimate performative power in practice [
]. Our case study is the antitrust investigation by the European Commission against Google over its comparison shopping service.
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An Engine Not a Camera: Measuring Performative Power of Online Search
Mendler-Dünner, C., Carovano, G., Hardt, M.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), (Editors: A. Globerson and L. Mackey and D. Belgrave and A. Fan and U. Paquet and J. Tomczak and C. Zhang), Curran Associates, Inc., Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024 (Published)
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