On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings in which chief executive Sundar Pichai said the company's AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest it's been in the last five years," Pichai said in a statement, according to The Verge.
Alphabet reported consolidated revenue of $127.6 billion for the quarter, up 25% year over year. Revenue from Google Search and other rose 12%, and Google Cloud revenue grew 103% to $30.7 billion, the company said. The Verge did not report the exact query growth rate behind Pichai's claim.
Alphabet also said YouTube Music and Premium passed 150 million subscribers globally. The company's figure includes free trials.
The earnings came after a busy quarter for Google, according to The Verge. It included the wide release of its Gemini 4 Argon frontier model this month, Gemini passing 1 billion monthly users, the reveal of the first five Googlebook laptops, the launch of the Pixel 11 line, and a leadership reshuffle in which former DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis moved into a chair role. The article also reports that Google is developing a new agentic AI experience for consumers.
The figures are company-reported, and the source does not break down how much of the search growth Alphabet attributes to specific AI products.
This dispatch is based on a public report by The Verge. We label it reported; a report is not an independent confirmation.
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