Alphabet: Google Search falls below half of revenue for the first time

Le chiffre d’affaires total d’Alphabet est de 128,0 milliards, et la recherche en représente 49,7 %, une première sous la barre des 50 %.

Être in the present is est for a singular subject and sont for a plural one. It describes nature, state or place (“is”, “is located”). If what follows (the attribute) is a noun, adjective or prepositional phrase, it is not a passive. If a past participle follows, it is a passive (est annoncé). Headlines and summaries often use the present to describe the current situation.

Ce n’est pas la recherche qui recule : d’autres activités, comme le cloud, ont progressé.

The passé composé is the most common past tense, used for “did” and “has done” — actions completed in the past. It is formed with the auxiliary avoir (a / ont…) in the present + a past participle. Past participles of -er verbs end in -é (annoncer → annoncé); learn the irregular ones (faire → fait, prendre → pris, voir → vu). In the negative, ne … pas wraps the auxiliary (n’a pas annoncé). In the news it reports facts that have already happened, such as “announced” or “voted”.

Au trimestre précédent, la part était de 52,8 %.

The imparfait describes states, background, habits and actions in progress in the past (il était, elle avait, ils pensaient). Take the nous form of the present, drop -ons, and add -ais / -ais / -ait / -ions / -iez / -aient. If the passé composé gives “the event itself”, the imparfait paints “the situation at the time”.

Les dates des faits et des annonces sont précisées dans le texte.

The passive means “is done” or “is being done”. It is formed with être + past participle, which agrees with the subject in gender and number (la mesure est adoptée / les mesures sont adoptées). The agent is introduced by par (or de). In the news it is common when the event, rather than the actor, is the focus (est prévu / est annoncé / est connu).

En divisant simplement les montants de l’article, on obtient environ 49,5 %, un peu moins que les 49,7 % annoncés.

The gerund means “while doing”, “by doing” or “when doing”. Its form is en + present participle (-ant). Take the nous form of the present, drop -ons and add -ant (faire → faisant). The subject is normally that of the main clause. It shows things happening at the same time, or the means.

Ce n’est pas la recherche qui recule : d’autres activités, comme le cloud, ont progressé.

Normally ne and pas wrap the verb. Before a vowel, ne becomes n’. Check which part of the sentence the negation covers. Ne … plus means “no longer”.

Selon GIGAZINE, le chiffre d’affaires de la recherche Google au troisième trimestre 2026 atteint 63,4 milliards de dollars, un niveau record.

Selon means “according to”. Put a person or organisation after it as the source. It separates facts the writer checked directly from what another body or report said. Citing a source does not turn a forecast into an accomplished fact.

Si d’autres activités grossissent, la part d’une activité peut baisser même si ses ventes augmentent.

Put a base-form verb after pouvoir. Peut means “can” or “may”; the conditional pourrait gives a more reserved possibility, “might”. It does not necessarily mean implementation is settled.

Ce n’est pas la recherche qui recule : d’autres activités, comme le cloud, ont progressé.

Qui continues a description of the person or thing just mentioned (“the one that does…”). Because qui is itself the subject of the next verb, do not repeat the subject. The verb agrees with the noun qui refers to.

Google Cloud réalise 30,7 milliards de dollars, un record, soit 24,1 % du total contre 5,0 % au premier trimestre 2019.

Million and milliard are nouns, so use de before what is counted. Before a vowel it becomes d’. Mille works differently: look at the quantity as a whole instead of applying the same form.

GIGAZINEによると、2026年7〜9月期のGoogle検索の売上は634億ドルで、過去最高水準です。

As in “LCPによると”, it shows where the information comes from. What that source reported follows. It is used differently from “私にとって”, which gives one’s own opinion.

四捨五入や集計の定義の違いかもしれませんが、ここでは原因を確認できませんでした。

These forms say something may happen. Even when “possibility” is written, it does not mean it will certainly happen. Check whose forecast it is, plus the time and conditions.

割合が下がった理由が「検索の不振」ではないことには、注意が必要です。

They negate a noun and similar content. “ではありません” is the polite form and “ではない” the plain form. “成立ではありません” shows that it cannot be said to have been concluded.

検索の売上が減ったのではなく、クラウドなど他の部門が大きくなった結果です。

“暴言など” gives “abusive language” as one example. It is not necessarily a closed list of only the things named. It also helps when reading the scope of a news story.

全体に占める割合は24.1%で、2019年1〜3月期の5.0%から上がりました。

In “発表しました”, ました makes a verb polite past. The negative is “ませんでした”. Read the actual date together with the date and time in the text.

Alphabet全体の売上は1280億ドル、検索が占める割合は49.7%で、5割を下回るのは初めてとされています。

と takes the content that is reported or explained. In “改定する方針だと報じました”, “改定する方針だ” is what the report said. Separating the content from who said it and how makes long sentences easier to read.