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To investigate how COVID-19 is framed visually via search engines, we collected data from five search engines: Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Yandex, and Yahoo. We selected these search engines because they are the ones with the largest share of the international search market (Statcounter 2020) or dominate their major local markets (e.g., Yandex in the case of Russia).