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Alex Hughes

Chatbots vs Google: How the two approach sourcing information is hugely different, according to a new study

AI chatbot images on a phone screen.

Despite both chatbots and search engines scouring the internet for information to answer your requests, it appears that they are approaching the task in very different ways.

A new paper published by researchers at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems compared the results of Google against Google’s AI overviews, Gemini 2.5, and GPT-4o web search.

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