{"id":7458,"date":"2026-04-30T06:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:34:31","slug":"google-search-revenue-grew-19-in-q1-pichai-cites-ai-via-sejournal-mattgsouthern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=7458","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Revenue Grew 19% In Q1, Pichai Cites AI via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div id=\"narrow-cont\"> <p>Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, with Google Search &amp; Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai tied the quarter\u2019s Search performance to AI Overviews and AI Mode, saying people are \u201ccoming back to Search more.\u201d<\/p> <p>Q1 revenue was lower sequentially than Q4 2025, when Search &amp; Other came in at $63.1 billion, but year-over-year growth increased from 17% to 19%. Total Alphabet revenue reached $109.9 billion, up 22%.<\/p> <p>Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler noted Google Services \u201cbenefited from a strong FX tailwind\u201d this quarter, which boosted the reported numbers above constant-currency growth.<\/p> <h2>What Pichai Said About Search<\/h2> <p>In his prepared remarks, Pichai connected the Search number to AI experiences, stating:<\/p> <blockquote> <p>\u201cPeople love our AI experiences like AI Mode and AI Overviews, and they\u2019re coming back to Search more.\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> <p>Pichai also said, \u201cqueries are at an all-time high.\u201d He described \u201cstrong growth in both users and usage of AI Mode globally\u201d without sharing an exact figure. Past Google disclosures\u00a0put AI Mode at roughly 100 million monthly active users and 75 million daily.<\/p> <p><iframe class=\"sej-iframe-auto-height\" id=\"in-content-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/wp-json\/sscats\/v2\/tk\/Middle_Post_Text\"><\/iframe><\/p> <p>Pichai said AI Overviews \u201care driving overall Search growth.\u201d Liz Reid made a similar engagement argument on Bloomberg\u2019s Odd Lots earlier this month, describing AI Overviews as reducing low-value clicks rather than reducing useful traffic.<\/p> <p>Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler offered a more specific read on what drove the Search number. He said Search &amp; Other growth was \u201cprimarily driven by retail and finance,\u201d with health also contributing.<\/p> <p>In the Q&amp;A, Schindler added that \u201cthe strength we saw in Search was not due to a single driver, but was really the result of many parts of our business showing strength and working very well together.\u201d<\/p> <h2>New Data On Search Speed And AI Costs<\/h2> <p>Pichai shared two efficiency figures.<\/p> <p>The first was latency. Pichai said:<\/p> <blockquote> <p>\u201cEven as we\u2019ve brought new AI features into our results page, we\u2019ve reduced Search latency by more than 35% over the past five years.\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> <p>The second was the cost of running AI responses. He continued:<\/p> <blockquote> <p>\u201cSince upgrading AI Overviews and AI Mode to Gemini 3, we\u2019ve reduced the cost of core AI responses by more than 30% thanks to continued hardware and engineering breakthroughs.\u201d<\/p> <\/blockquote> <h2>Search Updates Pichai Highlighted<\/h2> <p>Pichai highlighted three Search rollout items from the quarter.<\/p> <p>Personal Intelligence \u201cexpanded broadly in the U.S.,\u201d referring to Google\u2019s March expansion of Personal Intelligence to free U.S. users.<\/p> <p>Agentic experiences shipped to new countries. Pichai cited restaurant booking as one of the early examples of what Pichai has called \u201csearch as an agent manager.\u201d<\/p> <p>Search Live multimodal capabilities went global.<\/p> <h2>Why This Matters<\/h2> <p>Over the past year, SEO professionals worried AI Overviews would reduce clicks to sites by satisfying user intent on the results page. Q1 numbers challenge that idea. If AI were cannibalizing traditional search, query volume and revenue would flatten. Instead, both increased.<\/p> <p>But this doesn\u2019t mean concerns are unfounded. \u201cAll-time high queries\u201d doesn\u2019t imply all-time high publisher clicks. Google hasn\u2019t disclosed click-through rates or revenue split between AI Mode and traditional ads. More queries could mean fewer clicks per query if AI answers resolve intent early.<\/p> <p>However, the revenue growth indicates the search ecosystem is expanding, even as user interaction patterns shift.<\/p> <h2>Looking Ahead<\/h2> <p>Google\u2019s earnings show AI features are expanding search, but key questions remain about monetization and click-through rates.<\/p> <p>Pichai said more info about Search will be shared at Google I\/O in May and Google Marketing Live.<\/p> <\/div> <p>News,SEO#Google #Search #Revenue #Grew #Pichai #Cites #sejournal #MattGSouthern1777502071<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, with Google Search &amp; Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai tied the quarter\u2019s Search performance to AI Overviews and AI Mode, saying people are \u201ccoming back to Search more.\u201d Q1 revenue was lower sequentially than Q4 2025, when Search &amp; Other came in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11210,75,27819,90,12903,1212,95,80],"class_list":["post-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessibility","tag-cites","tag-google","tag-grew","tag-mattgsouthern","tag-pichai","tag-revenue","tag-search","tag-sejournal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}