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.’
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.
The earnings follow a packed quarter for Google, including the announcement of its Gemini 4 Argon frontier model (which it released widely this month ); crossing 1 billion monthly users in Gemini ; the reveal of the first five Googlebook laptops ; a price hike for the Google TV Streamer ; renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook ; the launch of the Pixel 11 line of smartphones, the new Pixel Watch , and the forthcoming Pixel Tag ; and a major shakeup of its top AI leadership that included former DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis stepping into a chair role .
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