In a Wednesday earnings call, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Google's AI-powered features, such as AI Overviews and AI mode, were driving growth in search queries. Pichai noted that search usage hit an all-time high during the FIFA World Cup, which started in June and wrapped up on Sunday. He said Google's AI-powered search function, AI Mode, has surpassed a billion monthly active users since it was expanded globally last October, driving an "incremental increase in search queries overall" and allowing Google to "send billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search." Pichai added that Google saw 17% revenue growth in search driven by these tools. The company reported its latest quarter earnings of $119.8 billion, up 24% from a year earlier, with its stock down 1.24% at market close.