Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Google has spent 25 years learning how to measure user satisfaction in Search, including engagement, sessions, return behavior, and bounce-backs, saying that those metrics help Google improve AI Search. When asked about the concept of Google Search traffic dwindling to zero, the Google Zero scenario, Pichai insisted that the reality is quite different. The interview gives the impression that Pichai downplays Google Zero concerns in a way that may frustrate publishers and SEOs who are worried about declining search referrals. Google Tracks User Satisfaction Metrics In AI One of the interesting takeaways from this interview is that Google’s CEO Pichai confirmed that Google is using user satisfaction metrics to gauge how well AI search is performing.…