3 papers
cs.IR2026
AI in Search Reduces Publisher Referrals Without Improving User Experience: Experimental Evidence
Stephanie T. Wang, Jeffrey Gleason, Yakov Bart +2
The integration of generative AI into web search delivers synthesized answers to user queries, changing how people navigate and assess information, while raising concerns about the…
cs.CL2026
Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy
Desheng Hu, Joachim Baumann, Aleksandra Urman +4
Google Search increasingly surfaces AI-generated content through features like AI Overviews (AIO) and Featured Snippets (FS), which users frequently rely on despite having no contr…
cs.CY2024
Market or Markets? Investigating Google Search's Market Shares Under Horizontal and Vertical Segmentation
Desheng Hu, Muhammad Abu Bakar Aziz, Jeffrey Gleason +4
Is Google Search a monopoly with gatekeeping power? Regulators from the US, UK, and Europe have argued that it is based on the assumption that Google Search dominates the market fo…