A Comparative Study of Users' Information-Seeking Practices Across Search Engines and Generative AI Chatbots.

@inproceedings{lichtenegger-2026-comparative, author = {Elsa Lichtenegger and Aleksandra Urman and Aniko Hannak}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{A Comparative Study of Users' Information-Seeking Practices Across Search Engines and Generative AI Chatbots}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1094--1105}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809525}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809525} }