Papers by Mihir Upadhyay
Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI (2026.findings-acl)
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Elisabeth Kirsten, Jost Große Perdekamp, Qinyuan Wu, Mihir Upadhyay, Krishna P. Gummadi, Muhammad Bilal Zafar
| Challenge: | generative search is a new search paradigm that uses LLMs to retrieve information from the web . traditional web search returns a ranked list of independent web pages . |
| Approach: | They compare generative search with traditional web search, which returns ranked results as a list of independent web pages. |
| Outcome: | The results show that generative search systems achieve topical coverage comparable to traditional search, but differ in retrieval footprints and synthesis strategies. |