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Google's AI Search Growth Fails to Offset Slowing Ad Revenue

Alphabet's Q3 earnings show search queries growing at their fastest rate in five years, but Search revenue growth slowed to 12% year-over-year from 17% in the prior quarter. Paid clicks growth also decelerated from 13% to 8%, despite heavy AI infrastructure spending. Shares fell about 14% after the report, highlighting investor concerns about AI monetization.

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Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search revenue growth slowed to 12 percent year over year in the third quarter, down from roughly 17 percent in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, growth in paid clicks - clicks on ads that generate revenue for Google - slowed from 13 percent to 8 percent.

That's still substantial growth, but not the direction investors were hoping for from a company planning to spend about $200 billion this year on infrastructure, largely to support AI. Alphabet shares have fallen about 14 percent since it reported e …

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