Driving the Herd: Search Engines as Content Influencers

1 code implementation • 21 Oct 2021 • Gregory Goren, Oren Kurland, Moshe Tennenholtz, Fiana Raiber

We present a first study of the ability of search engines to drive pre-defined, targeted, content effects in the corpus using simple techniques.

Ranking-Incentivized Quality Preserving Content Modification

2 code implementations • 26 May 2020 • Gregory Goren, Oren Kurland, Moshe Tennenholtz, Fiana Raiber

The Web is a canonical example of a competitive retrieval setting where many documents' authors consistently modify their documents to promote them in rankings.

Learning-To-Rank Retrieval