{
  "id": 16954124,
  "title": "Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/google-says-its-investments-in-ai-are-driving-more-searches",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-28T20:22:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020811/alphabet-google-earnings-q3-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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 […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}