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Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches
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Google’s year-over-year search query growth rate is ‘the highest it’s been in the last five years.’
Google’s year-over-year search query growth rate is ‘the highest it’s been in the last five years.’
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Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today.
“Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries,” CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. “In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest it’s been in the last five years.”
Alphabet’s consolidated revenues for the quarter were $127.6 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year, with its “Google Search & other” revenues up 12 percent year-over-year. Google Cloud revenue was also up 103 percent year-over-year to $30.7 billion. Alphabet also says it passed 150 million YouTube Music and Premium subscribers globally, though that figure includes trials.