The Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks

Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan +9 more
3/19/2024
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Until recently, search engines were the predominant method for people to access online information. The recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) has given machines new capabilities such as the ability to generate new digital artifacts like text, images, code etc., resulting in a new tool, a generative search engine, which combines the capabilities of LLMs with a traditional search engine. Through the empirical analysis of Bing Copilot (Bing Chat), one of the first publicly available generative search engines, we analyze the types and complexity of tasks that people use Bing Copilot for compared to Bing Search. Findings indicate that people use the generative search engine for more knowledge work tasks that are higher in cognitive complexity than were commonly done with a traditional search engine.

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@article{suri2024generative,
  title  = {The Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks},
  author = {Siddharth Suri and Scott Counts and Leijie Wang and Chacha Chen and Mengting Wan and Tara Safavi and Jennifer Neville and Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White and Reid Andersen and Georg Buscher and Sathish Manivannan and Nagu Rangan and Longqi Yang},
  year   = {2024},
  eprint = {2404.04268},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04268v1}
}

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