{
  "id": 16946,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04831v1",
  "title": "Investigating Click Behaviors On Google Search Result Pages That Produce an AI Overview",
  "summary": "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. Our analysis of the panelists' Google searches sheds light on AI Overviews, when they appear in Google search results, and what user behaviors are associated with AI Overviews. We identify several attributes that make a s",
  "authors": "Athena Chapekis, Anna Lieb, Sono Shah, Aaron Smith",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": "google",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T13:33:17.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-hc",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.HC",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16946",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04831v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}