A Bank of America Securities report indicates Alphabet's Google saw a year-over-year increase in web and mobile search traffic in June. This counters concerns that AI chatbots are eroding its user base.
Global web visits to Google.com rose 4%. Visits totaled 2.8 billion. Daily average mobile users grew 12%. Similarweb and Sensor Tower provided this data.
Google's growth occurred even as AI competitors experienced large percentage increases in traffic from smaller bases.
Anthropic's Claude saw a 736% jump in web traffic. Its mobile users surged by 1,206%.
The data suggests fears of AI tools significantly diminishing Google's search dominance may be overstated.
Google's own AI product, Gemini, is gaining users without cannibalizing the core search product.