Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches
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 […]
Alphabet, Google's parent company, disclosed in its Q3 2026 earnings that its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are contributing to a significant surge in search queries year-over-year. CEO Sundar Pichai stated that this growth trend, including commercial queries, is the highest it has been in the past five years. Alphabet's total revenues for the quarter reached $127.6 billion, reflecting a 25% increase compared to the previous year.
Notably, Google Search and other services experienced a 12% year-over-year revenue growth. Additionally, Google Cloud's revenue surged by 103% year-over-year, reaching $30.7 billion. The company also announced that it has surpassed 150 million YouTube Music and Premium subscribers globally, although this figure includes trial users.
These announcements come following a busy quarter for Google, which included the launch of the Gemini 4 Argon frontier model, reaching 1 billion monthly users in Gemini, the introduction of Googlebook laptops, a price increase for the Google TV Streamer, and other AI-related developments.
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