Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches

Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches.

谷歌表示，其在人工智能领域的投资正在推动搜索量的增长。

Google’s year-over-year search query growth rate is ‘the highest it’s been in the last five years.’

谷歌的年度搜索查询增长率是“过去五年中最高的”。

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.

谷歌母公司 Alphabet 在今日发布的 2026 年第三季度财报中指出，其人工智能投资正带动搜索量实现同比大幅增长。

“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.”

首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）在一份声明中表示：“我们的 AI 投资正在推动整体搜索查询量的增长，包括商业查询。事实上，我们的年度查询增长率是过去五年中最高的。”

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 本季度的合并营收为 1276 亿美元，同比增长 25%，其中“谷歌搜索及其他”业务营收同比增长 12%。谷歌云业务营收也同比增长 103%，达到 307 亿美元。

Alphabet also says it passed 150 million YouTube Music and Premium subscribers globally, though that figure includes trials.

Alphabet 还表示，其 YouTube Music 和 Premium 的全球订阅用户已超过 1.5 亿，尽管该数字包含了试用用户。

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.

在发布这份财报之前，谷歌度过了一个繁忙的季度，其中包括：宣布其 Gemini 4 Argon 前沿模型（本月已广泛发布）；Gemini 月活跃用户突破 10 亿；发布首批五款 Googlebook 笔记本电脑；上调 Google TV Streamer 价格；将 NotebookLM 更名为 Gemini Notebook；推出 Pixel 11 系列智能手机、新款 Pixel Watch 以及即将面世的 Pixel Tag；以及对其顶级 AI 领导层进行重大调整，包括前 DeepMind 负责人德米斯·哈萨比斯（Demis Hassabis）转任主席职位。