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Cross-lingual Audit of AI Overviews in Baidu and Google Search

This study analyzes AI-generated overview behavior in Chinese-language search on Baidu and Google using English queries and their Chinese translations. It examines when overviews are triggered and their platform-language differences.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-21T10:57:24+00:00 Detected 2026-10-17T21:19:57+00:00
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This study analyzes AI-generated overview behavior in Chinese-language search on Baidu and Google using English queries and their Chinese translations. It examines when overviews are triggered and their platform-language differences.

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AI-generated overviews are becoming an increasingly prominent layer of search interfaces, yet their behavior in Chinese-language search remains underexplored. We conduct a cross-lingual audit of AI overview behavior on Baidu and Google using English queries sampled from MS MARCO and their translated Chinese...

Understanding AI overview behavior across languages helps improve search interface transparency and user experience in multilingual contexts. It highlights differences in AI search performance between major platforms in Chinese and English.

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