Beyond Google: Reputation In An Information Environment Mediated By Artificial Intelligence
Search has changed – not just in interface, but in behaviour. People increasingly ask full questions rather than typing keywords. They look for explanations rather than lists of links. Increasingly, they turn directly to AI tools such as ChatGPT to understand companies, sectors, and reputational context. Even within Google itself, AI-generated overviews now summarise the landscape before a user clicks through to individual results.


