Google's AI search queries are 2-3x longer than traditional searches
Sundar Pichai · Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview · May 16, 2025 · at 6:22
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai explains how user behavior is changing with conversational AI experiences in Google Search.
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“The average query length is somewhere two to three times. That's what we've seen, ah, search as it existed, ah, two years ago.”
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