arXiv AI By Qiaoni Shi, Kai Zhu, Kai Gu

Answering Without Referring: How AI Search Rewrites the Web's Economic Bargain

Read the original on arXiv AI →

arXiv:2607. 07652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Search engines have long allocated attention on the web by routing users from queries to websites.

Machine-generated by The Flow from the publisher's headline and feed description — not written or checked by a human. The full article lives at arXiv AI.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses

The study examines how conversational LLM agents—specifically ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek—use Web search, combining real user interactions with controlled API experiments. It finds that agents differ in when they decide to search, how they craft queries, and which domains they favor, and that more frequent searching does not always improve answer quality. While most responses are grounded in search results, some claims are unsupported, raising attribution concerns.

By Mahsa Amani, Seungeon Lee, Abhisek Dash, Asmaa El Fraihi, Yunah Jang, Elisabeth Kirsten, Qinyuan Wu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Manish Gupta, Abhilasha Ravichander, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Soumi Das
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 17

"If I Had to Buy Just ONE: Galaxy S26 Ultra": Auditing AI-Generated Product Recommendations

arXiv:2609.18729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consumers increasingly use AI chatbots for advice on what to buy. With companies like OpenAI and Google monetising their AI through advertising, this...

By Lucas G. Uberti-Bona Marin, Thales Bertaglia, Giovanni Astante, Bram Rijsbosch, Gijs van Dijck, Anik\'o Hann\'ak, Gerasimos Spanakis, Konrad Kollnig
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI

arXiv:2510. 11560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of LLMs has given rise to generative search, a new search paradigm in which LLMs retrieve information from the web related to a query and synthesize it into a single, coherent response.

By Elisabeth Kirsten, Jost Grosse Perdekamp, Qinyuan Wu, Mihir Upadhyay, Krishna P. Gummadi, Muhammad Bilal Zafar