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Researchers tracked what DeepSeek and Qwen actually do with web search. Nearly 40% of the links are never used.

When you turn on web search in an AI assistant and see 15 clickable links at the bottom of the screen, it is natural to assume the AI read those pages and built its answer from them. A new study tested what actually happens between the search step and the final written answer across 160,860 cleaned…

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  1. 2026-10-17 13:40 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Researchers tracked what DeepSeek and Qwen actually do with web search. Nearly 40% of the links are never used.

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