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Controversy >Discovery Engine

Probe for the Darker Side" of your search topics !!!

Get more diverse and analytic content from Google.





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Instructions

  1. Enter your normal search term. Use quote for phrase. then
  2. >Choose from synonyms for "controversy". Use CNTL to multi-select. Choose NONE to ignore synonyms.
  3. Optionally, choose a kind of support
  4. Click the search button. Your terms will be sent to Google as a combined query.. However, your query might overflow a Google word limit, with a warning.
  5. Browse query results for controversial topics. Note that you can edit the query on the Google page and resubmit for different results. Advanced search is also available for more refined search criteria.

Examples of controversial topics

Try these. Compare the main query then select expanded terms.

Credits and Caveats

This form and query are based on Google Hacks. The underlying concepts of using Controversy to probe into the Analytic Web were explored in the published experimental study "Do Search Engines Suppress Controversy?" Here are a few caveats: The Controversy Discovery Engine is meant to help you start exploring a topic for controversies, opinions, evidence, and authorities by adding common synonym and useful extended terms. This will often drive your search into references to scholarly material available only as abstracts. As always, it's your responsibility to double check any facts or theories, especially because the expanded search terms may lead to pages with crack pot theories or diatribes. While this HTML form has worked for five years, it remains possible that Google may change its search interface at any time. The The web page uses the simplest possible HTML, without styles, to permit easy modification. We cannot guarantee compatibility with all browsers past and future. Under Creative Commons terms, you are free to modify the HTML page for your own purposes as long as you reference the original at http://apodder.org/ControversyDiscoveryEngine.html . Please report your experiences to slger123@gmail.com Susan Gerhart . Indeed, we welcome propagation of the meme for the Analytic Web and experimentation to make searching more effective.
Revised: May 31, 2008 by Susan L. Gerhart

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