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Researcher Engagement

At Google, strong relationships with universities and research institutions are in our DNA. To cultivate these collaborations, we administer a variety of programs that provide resources and support to the academic and external research communities. We provide data, tools, and publications to researchers, have researcher programs that selected researchers may apply to as well as deliver a number of outreach initiatives.

Data, tools, and publications

Google makes available a wide variety of data, tools, and publications to researchers studying digital safety and risks online.
Internet safety data, tools, and
publications for researchers
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Google Transparency Report

On the Google Transparency Report website, we share reports and data that shed light on how the policies and actions of governments and corporations affect privacy, security, and access to information. These include government requests to remove content, requests to delist content under European privacy law, content delistings due to copyright and the VLOSE/VLOP Transparency Report under the European Union Digital Services Act (EU DSA)
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Statement of Reason Data

The EU Digital Services Act obliges providers of hosting services to send clear and specific statements of reasons to any affected recipient when they take certain actions on information that is reported to be illegal or violates the service’s terms and conditions. Google submits such ‘Statements of Reasons’ to the European Commission as part of the Digital Services Act. These statements include explanations of the impacted accounts, the specific facts and circumstances leading to the provider’s decision, the type of content at issue, the law or policy that was violated, and other relevant information. You can find the submissions provided by Google to the European Commission here.
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Ads Transparency Center

Ads Transparency Center

Google collects data about advertising that appears on our very large online platforms and very large online search engine, including information about advertisement content, format, topic, sponsor, publishing period, the number of times an advertisement was shown, and the criteria selected by an advertiser to define the audience of an advertisement.
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Google Research Publications on Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention

Google has researchers publishing on security, privacy and abuse prevention. We have people working on nearly every aspect of security, privacy, and anti-abuse including access control and information security, networking, operating systems, language design, cryptography, fraud detection and prevention, spam and abuse detection, denial of service, anonymity, privacy-preserving systems, disclosure controls, as well as user interfaces and other human-centered aspects of security and privacy.
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Lumen

To increase transparency and accountability over our online content moderation practices, Google LLC shares certain legal notices that we receive requesting the removal of content from many of our services with a third-party project called Lumen. Lumen is an independent research project managed by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that houses, analyzes, and publishes copies of online content takedown requests that have been voluntarily shared with Lumen by various companies, such as Google LLC. Its purpose is to educate the public and facilitate journalistic, academic, or policy-focused research about the global notice & takedown “ecology” and the availability of content on the web.
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DSA Article 40(4) Data Resources

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DSA Access Modality & Terms
DSA Researcher Point of Contact
DSA 40(4) Data Access Portal

YouTube


YouTube

Available data includes a variety of information about videos, channels, comments, and playlists on the platform. For YouTube videos, data includes details such as a video’s upload date, channel ID, title, description, likes, and view count. For YouTube channels, data includes subscriber counts and total channel views, as well as details about what videos a channel has chosen to feature, such as a channel's latest uploads, most popular uploads, or videos from one or more playlists. YouTube also provides information about comments on public videos, as well as replies to top-level comments. For playlists, YouTube provides information about resources, such as a video, that are part of a playlist, and details explaining how the resource is used in the playlist. Learn more about our data: YouTube Data API Overview

Google Maps


Google Maps

Google Maps collects and maintains information that allows users to navigate the world around them. The service includes information about places, business, and experiences, and helps businesses build an online presence, engage with customers, and grow their business. The information about places and businesses includes some user-generated content, such as content from consumer users and merchant users (including ratings, reviews, and photography) and content provided by the merchant users interested in listing their business on Maps.

Google Play


Google Play

Google Play collects information about the type, category, quality, relevance, and popularity of content on the platform, as well as about user and third-party content reviews. Depending on user preferences, we also gather information about user interests, impressions, interactions, and prior purchases with Google Play.

Google Shopping


Google Shopping

Google Shopping allows users to browse products from advertisers and sellers who have chosen to display their products on Google Shopping. Google Shopping collects information to help users make informed decisions about items listed on Google Shopping, such as product and merchant ratings and reviews. To successfully match user queries with products, we also collect information about merchant products, including basic product data, price, and availability. Learn more about our data: Product Data Specification.

DSA Access Modality & Terms


DSA Access Modality & Terms

Vetted researchers should use our data room to access the information we collect and maintain in a secure, privacy-protected manner. Access to our data room is subject to Terms of Service, which we require any researcher to accept if they use the data room.

DSA Researcher Point of Contact


DSA Researcher Point of Contact

DSA Researchers can reach Google at dsa-article-40-4@google.com

DSA 40(4) Data Access Portal


DSA 40(4) Data Access Portal

To submit a DSA Article 40(4) request, please visit the European Commission Data Access Portal here.

Other data, tools, and publications for Researchers

Google Research Resources
Google Trends
Dataset Search
Data Commons
Google Scholar

Google Research Resources

Google Research Resources

We make tools and datasets available to the broader research community with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.
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Data Commons

Data Commons

Data Commons aims to organize all the world's public data and make it universally accessible and useful. Data Commons synthesizes a single graph from different data sources. It links references to the same entities (such as cities, counties, organizations, etc.) across different datasets to nodes on the graph, so that users can access data about a particular entity aggregated from different sources without data cleaning or joining. We hope the data contained within Data Commons will be useful to students, researchers, and enthusiasts across different disciplines.
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Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Anyone can search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources and researchers can also make profiles showing their own work.
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Learn About the
Researcher Program

The Researcher Program equips qualified researchers with resources to advance the public’s understanding of certain Google services and their impact.

Discover How to Qualify

Qualifying researchers from diverse disciplines can apply to obtain access to data from Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google Shopping and YouTube to study those platforms from a wide range of perspectives and research frameworks. This programme is currently only available for researchers affiliated with an EU-based institution and may be expanded upon in the future. Researchers interested in other data sets and research tools provided by Google should visit Google Research.
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How the Program Works

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Confirm your eligibility with relevant platforms

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Submit your application (Requires a Google account)

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If approved, access the tool(s) relevant to your research

Review the Eligibility Requirements

Qualifying researchers:

  • are affiliated with not for profit bodies, organizations and associations;
  • are independent from commercial interests;
  • disclose in their application the funding of their research;
  • are able to meet specific data security and confidentiality requirements corresponding to each request and to protect personal data;
  • describe in their application the appropriate technical and organizational measures that they have put in place to meet data security and confidentiality requirements;
  • demonstrate in their application that their access to data and the time frames requested are necessary for, and proportionate to, the purposes of their research;
  • demonstrate in their application that the expected results of their research will contribute to the detection, identification and understanding of the impacts of the services in the European Union, and to the assessment of the adequacy, efficiency and impacts of related risk mitigation measures in the European Union.

Note: Individual platform teams may have additional eligibility requirements beyond those listed here.

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View the Program Policies

We’ve summarized the eligibility requirements and conditions on this page. Be sure to review the Acceptable Use Policy before you apply. To participate in the program, applicants must review and agree to the policies outlined.

Selected researchers must agree to the Acceptable Use Policy, along with any general Terms of Service for the platform(s) the researcher is accessing.

You are fully responsible for your research and publications. In addition, Google won’t own any IP related to your research, publications or any research outcomes, or recommendations.

Other Researcher Programs

Outreach

We administer a variety of outreach programs that provide support to the academic and external research communities

Awards

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Trust & Safety Research Awards

Google is committed to supporting innovative research and professors working to create positive societal impact with technology, particularly in areas relevant to Trust & Safety. Google is looking to fund and actively collaborate with the academic research community, exploring opportunities to expand our knowledge of Trust & Safety concerns

In addition, we have other awards that aren’t solely focused on Trust & Safety, where we often fund researchers in these programs working in trust and safety, privacy, and security.
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Research Scholar Program

The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google.

The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors.
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Award for Inclusion Research Program

The Award for Inclusion Research Program recognizes and supports academic research in computing and technology that addresses the needs of historically marginalized groups globally.
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events

Events

We have Google teams working across privacy, security, content responsibility, and family safety around the world. Our Google Safety Engineering Centers in Munich, Dublin, and Málaga help guide this Internet safety work, led by experienced teams of engineers, policy specialists and subject matter experts. Through our network of centers, we collaborate and share this work with researchers, policymakers and regulators.

Part of this work includes holding regular events for these audiences on topics such as Security and Child Safety [e.g. photos]

Specifically for researchers, we also organize events focused on having our researchers collaborate with the academic community like our workshop on At-Risk Users and our AI Research Day in France, which focused entirely on AI Privacy, Safety and Security research.