Commercial search engines shape what billions of people see, but public APIs are restricted or discontinued, and client-side rendering breaks conventional scraping. Independent research on these systems is harder than it should be.
At the 3rd MethodsNET Conference, we’re demonstrating the Result Assessment Tool (RAT) to face these problems. Live walkthrough of all four stages:
Define: Sample real-world query sets with the built-in Query Sampler.
Collect: Pull SERP metadata, full HTML source, and AI-generated summaries from Google, Bing, and others.
Evaluate: Run juror questionnaires on preserved screenshots and collected AI responses.
Analyze: Compute result overlap, domain distributions, and custom SEO or readability scores.
Built for interdisciplinary researchers auditing complex commercial search systems.
Date & time: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium + online
More information & registration: https://methodsnet.org/conference/3rd-methodsnet-conference-2026/