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The company whose answer engines, documentation changes, and earnings set the terms for everyone optimizing for AI search.

The wire's largest record, and the one where the money and the disputes sit in the same quarter. Alphabet reported Q2 2026 Search revenue of $63.27 billion, up 17% year over year — the first deceleration after four quarters of accelerating growth. Around that number: AI Overviews on 43% of searches per Similarweb; a claim from search executive Nick Fox that AI features send billions of clicks weekly, published without methodology; and a Datos/SparkToro finding that only 40% of U.S. searches sent a click to the open web in June. Google's own documentation is doing consequential work — a support page now states that signed-in search interactions improve Search's generative AI models, and its AI-features guidance says machine-readable files aren't needed. Meanwhile the UK's CMA has ordered a publisher opt-out from training, fine-tuning and grounding, and a judge dismissed most of Google's DMCA case against SerpApi.

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