An online shopping intermediary is an internet platform on which consumers and third-party sellers transact. Shopping intermediaries provide a search environment (e.g., search aids) to lower consumers’ search costs incurred when finding and evaluating sellers’ products. We study strategic...

With the booming of LLM technologies (e.g., ChatGPT), people's goals and behaviors in information search have been reshaped significantly. This paper attempts to conceptually discuss how LLM technologies might revolutionize these important aspects in information search and provides a...