Search engines are commonly used for online political information seeking. Yet, it remains unclear how search query suggestions for political searches that reflect the latent interest of internet users vary across countries and over time. We provide a systematic analysis of Google search engine query suggestions for European and national politicians. Using an original dataset of search query suggestions for European politicians collected in ten countries, we find that query suggestions are less stable over time in politicians' countries of origin, when the politicians hold a supranational role, and for female politicians. Moreover, query suggestions for political leaders and male politicians are more similar across countries. We conclude by discussing possible future directions for studying information search about European politicians in online search.

翻译：搜索引擎是获取在线政治信息的常用工具。然而，针对政治搜索的查询建议如何反映互联网用户的潜在兴趣，以及这些建议在不同国家和时间上的变化，目前尚不明确。本研究对谷歌搜索引擎中关于欧洲及各国政治家的查询建议进行了系统分析。通过使用在十个国家收集的欧洲政治家搜索查询建议原始数据集，我们发现：在政治家的原籍国、当政治家担任超国家角色时以及对于女性政治家，查询建议随时间变化的稳定性较低。此外，各国之间针对政治领导人和男性政治家的查询建议更为相似。最后，我们讨论了未来研究在线搜索中关于欧洲政治家信息检索的可能方向。