Are LLM Web Search Engines Sustainable? A Web-Measurement Study of Real-Time Fetching.

@inproceedings{sayyidali-2026-llm, author = {Abdur-Rahman Ibrahim Sayyid-Ali and Daanish Uddin Khan and Naveed Anwar Bhatti}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Are LLM Web Search Engines Sustainable? A Web-Measurement Study of Real-Time Fetching}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {2083--2093}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792278}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792278} }