SocioLens — RO-LD10-01: Do AI answers in search cut clicks to outside sites on phones and outside the US?

urn:uuid:74983d04-674b-5e65-95f3-668103c9a9a5 SocioLens — RO-LD10-01: Do AI answers in search cut clicks to outside sites on phones and outside the US? New versions of this research opportunity and changes to the claims it rests on. 2026-10-13T00:00:00Z SocioLens urn:uuid:6f4dd434-e2d6-57e4-9f02-1afa239fa4e7 Research opportunity revised to v2: RO-LD10-01 — Do AI answers in search cut clicks to outside sites on phones and outside the US? 2026-10-13T00:00:00Z

Literature check added: a second, deeper search for existing work, with its queries, new nearest work and limits. The question and verdict stand.

urn:uuid:cb76ef24-6d0c-5a78-a000-bba08dccda0b New research opportunity: RO-LD10-01 — Do AI answers in search cut clicks to outside sites on phones and outside the US? 2026-10-12T00:00:00Z

When AI answer layers in search (Google AI Overviews and AI Mode) are shown or hidden at random on people's own smartphones, in at least one non-US market and language, how much do they change clicks to external websites, zero-click searches, the kinds of sources visited and trust in the information, compared with the US desktop estimates?