Google Trends still rises, but ad impressions are falling, poster says
firstadopter · x · 2026-07-23
The poster says they tried to reconcile Google Trends with ad performance and noticed a mismatch: some important keywords were still rising, but overall impressions were falling.
The conclusion is that Google seems to be losing traffic, and that the usual signals from search interest no longer line up cleanly with ad metrics. The attached image shows a data-center-like scene, reinforcing the broader theme of AI-era infrastructure and traffic shifts.
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