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Article: Better than a Google search? Effectiveness of generative AI chatbots as information seeking tools in law, health sciences, and library and information sciences

AISeptember 12, 2025

(5 Sept 2025) From the abstract: Generative AI chatbots are rapidly reshaping information-seeking behaviors due to their ability to cite to online sources in responses to user queries. Many university students are increasingly turning to chatbots as learning partners and believe it improves their effectiveness as a learner. This perceived trust in these tools…

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The AI powered library search that refused to search

AI, ToolsAugust 9, 2025

From Clarivate’s Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are “quietly” blocking controversial topics from being searched (29 Jul 2025) This article by Aaron Tay discusses how AI-powered academic search tools, especially Clarivate’s Summon Research Assistant and Primo Research Assistant, are being affected by content-moderation filters that block or impede…

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Google AI summaries increase frequency of ‘zero clicks’ to search results, sinking traffic to news sites

InternetJuly 14, 2025

(3 Jul 2025) Google’s AI Overviews feature has led to a significant increase in the frequency of “zero clicks” to search queries — drastically reducing traffic to news websites, according to a new report. Since the Big Tech giant rolled out its artificial intelligence tool in May 2024, the percentage of web searches related to…

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Research tools: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence introduces Ai2 Paper Finder

AI, ToolsMarch 30, 2025

(26 Mar 2025) From Ai2: Today we release Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. We believe that AI-based literature search should follow the research and thought process that a human researcher would use when looking for relevant papers in their field. Ai2 Paper Finder is built on this philosophy, and it excels at…

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AI search summaries cannibalize academic publishers’ web traffic

AI, InternetMarch 24, 2025

(11 Mar 2025) Speaking at the Academic and Professional Publishing Conference, part of the London Book Fair, Oxford University Press (OUP) product strategy director John Campbell explained how the launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries had led to a 19 per cent drop in click-through to academic reference services. Discussing what he called the advent…

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AI Search fails at citation, study finds

AI, InternetMarch 14, 2025

(13 Mar 2025) One of the recent trends in generative artificial intelligence has been AI search. Nearly every major AI company has launched some version of an AI search engine, often with lofty promises about what it can do. For example, OpenAI says their ChatGPT Search will give you, “fast, timely answers with links to…

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Google is adding more AI Overviews and a new ‘AI Mode’ to Search

AI, InternetMarch 12, 2025

(6 Mar 2025) The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too. There’s an even more ambitious AI search…

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How ChatGPT Search (mis)represents publisher content

AI, InternetDecember 13, 2024

(27 Nov 2024) ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. In contrast to the original rollout…

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The chatbot optimisation game: Can we trust AI web searches?

AI, InternetNovember 6, 2024

Google and its rivals are increasingly employing AI-generated summaries, but research indicates their results are far from authoritative and open to manipulation (3 Nov 2024) Instead of scrolling through a list of webpages to find the answer to a question, the thinking goes, an AI chatbot can scour the internet for you, combing it for…

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OpenAI announces its AI-powered search engine SearchGPT

AI, InternetJuly 26, 2024

(26 Jul 2024) OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet. SearchGPT is just a “prototype” for now. The service is powered by the GPT-4 family of models and will only be accessible to 10,000 test users at launch, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla…

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