arXiv AI
Oct 5

Measuring Google AI Overviews: Activation, Source Quality, Claim Fidelity, and Publisher Impact

The study measures Google AI Overviews (AIOs), noting they activate for 13.7% of queries overall and 64.7% of question-form queries, with lower rates for politically sensitive topics. AIOs cite more credible domains than typical search results, yet 30% of cited pages are not shown in the first-page results, indicating a distinct source selection process. Among 98,020 atomic claims, 11.0% lack support from cited pages, mainly due to omissions, and over half of cited pages contain display ads, reducing publisher revenue while Google’s ads remain.

By Haofei Xu, Umar Iqbal, Jacob M. Montgomery
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

Sources of Truth: A Multi-Platform, Multilingual Audit of Citations in AI Mental Health Information Queries

arXiv:2609.00319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online health information seeking is shifting from keyword search, where users consider a ranked list of links, to conversational systems that compos...

By Phuong Anh Nguyen, Jill Noorily, Matthew Flathers, Haruka Notsu, Laura Ospina-Pinillos, Tommy Nguyen, Samantha Clark, Aoife Keane, Grace Thompson, John Torous
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 7

Kurate: Scalable Scientific Quality Analysis

arXiv:2610.07306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific search systems can find papers that are relevant to a question, but they generally do not assess the quality of the evidence that those pape...

By Matthew J. Vowels, Jamie Cummins