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[Submitted on 16 Sep 2026] Title:Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses View a PDF of the paper titled Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses, by Mahsa Amani and 11 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Conversational LLM agents increasingly rely on Web search, yet the end-to-end lifecycle of agentic search remains poorly understood. We present the first study of Web search across four major conversational platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek), combining real-world user interactions (invivo) with controlled experiments using the same platform's models by their APIs (invitro). We investigate the quality of agentic decisions to invoke Web search, their strategies to formulate queries, the potential domain preferences in the search results they receive, and the choices they make when transforming search results into grounded responses. We find that Web-search decisions vary substantially across platforms and models, while more frequent Web-search invocation does not necessarily yield better response quality. We further show that conversational agents employ different complex querying strategies and that platform specific search engines return search results from their preferred domains. Finally, although responses are largely grounded in search results, some claims rely on uncited search results, raising concerns about attribution and reliability. Our findings have important implications for the design of future AI agents and Web search tools optimized for conversational retrieval. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR) Cite as: arXiv:2609.19244 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2609.19244v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.19244 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Mahsa Amani [view email] [v1] Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:56:32 UTC (1,583 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses, by Mahsa Amani and 11 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.AI new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.IR References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)