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Beyond traditional search: New characteristics of online health information seeking about chronic disease with Gen AI
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“Generative search systems such as Google's AI Overviews (AIO) shift information-seeking from comparing ranked documents to evaluating a synthesised answer presented on the results page.”
From From search results to generative answers: A mixed-methods study of credibility assessment and trust formation in AI Overviews (2027) · cites this paper as Tang et al., 2026
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“In generative systems, visible citations can increase trust even when they are irrelevant, and users often do not inspect the supporting sources (Ding et al., 2025;Nahar et al., 2025;Tang et al., 2026).”
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“In generative systems, visible citations can increase trust even when they are irrelevant, and users often do not inspect the supporting sources (Ding et al., 2025;Nahar et al., 2025;Tang et al., 2026).”
From From search results to generative answers: A mixed-methods study of credibility assessment and trust formation in AI Overviews (2027) · cites this paper as Tang et al., 2026
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“It can support verification, but the mere visibility of references may also serve as an authority cue when users do not inspect them (Ding et al., 2025;Li & Aral, 2025;Tang et al., 2026).”
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“This pattern indicates a potential risk of reliance without active verification, although it was not uniform across participants.”
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- Tang, Z., Su, Y., Hansen, P., & Zhang, P.
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- Information Processing & Management
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2026-07
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