Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI

ArXi:2510.11560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross The advent of LLMs has given rise to generative search, a new search paradigm in which LLMs retrieve information from the web related to a query and synthesize it into a single, coherent response. This paradigm differs fundamentally from traditional web search, where results are returned as a ranked list of independent web pages.