Advancing the search frontier with AI agents
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- Authors
- White, R. W.
- Affiliations
- Microsoft (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- White, Ryen W.
- ORCID
- White, Ryen W.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 54-65
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W4401933721
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 5
- FWCI
- 20.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Recommender Systems and Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence Applications
- Keywords
- AI agents, search engines, large language models
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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