AI shopping assistant search trends
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
Search interest▼ Fallingand 61% below its May 2026 peak
- Google Trends, year on year
- -44%
- US searches vs October 2025
- -32%
- From the five-year peak
- -61%
This page follows one Google search, “ai shopping assistants”, over five years. Interest is 44% lower than a year ago, 61% below its peak in May 2026.
Below: the five-year chart, searches month by month, country by country and the searches people make around it.
Google Trends via SerpApi (pulled 15 October 2026); search volume and visits via DataForSEO · not a ranking
AI shopping assistant search trends: the key numbers for September 2026
The numbers that sum up searches for “ai shopping assistants”. Tap one for the detail below.
Interest in “ai shopping assistants” is down 44% on a year ago: 24 out of 100 on Google Trends in September 2026, against 43 a year earlier. The five-year peak was 61, in May 2026.
People search for it about 3,600 times a month worldwide, 1,300 of them in the US (36%). In September 2026, US searches were 880, 32% fewer than in October 2025.
49.4% of visits to the tracked AI shopping assistant sites come from the US, up from 30.2% a year ago. India, the United Kingdom and Canada come next.
Five years of interest, worldwide and in the US
WorldGoogle Trends interest, worldwide (0–100)
Source: Google Trends, 100 = peak week.
USGoogle Trends interest, United States (0–100)
United States only, same scale.
Miles explains
Here’s how I read these two lines. They don’t show how many people search, only when interest rose and fell. Worldwide, it peaked in May 2026 and sits at 24 now, lower than a year ago. In the US it’s lower than a year ago, and the Google Ads numbers below tell the same story. When you see a sharp spike, think news story, not new customers. The baseline between the spikes is the demand I actually care about.
What the term is worth, month by month
USSearches a month for "ai shopping assistants", United States
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.
WorldSearches a month for "ai shopping assistants", worldwide
Worldwide, same source.
Miles explains
This is the number I’d plan with: September 2026 had 880 US searches, 32% fewer than in October 2025. Google Ads rounds these figures into steps, so a small move from one month to the next usually means nothing.
The US against 7 other countries
Searches a month for “ai shopping assistants” in each country with a Google Ads figure, twelve-month average; countries with none are left out. The United States is 36.1% of the worldwide figure; the next 3 countries together are 36.7%.
- United States1,300
- India1,000
- United Kingdom210
- Australia110
- Canada90
- Germany70
- Netherlands40
- Brazil10
Miles explains
The top five countries are United States, India, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Worldwide, people search for it about 2.8 times as often as in the US alone, so roughly 63.9% of the searches happen outside the US.
The searches around the term
| Search | US / month | Worldwide / month | US share |
|---|---|---|---|
| “ai shopping assistants” | 1,300 | 3,600 | 36% |
| “ai shopping app” | 170 | 320 | 53% |
| “ai product finder” | 110 | 320 | 34% |
| “ai price comparison” | 260 | 1,300 | 20% |
| “ai deal finder” | 110 | 210 | 52% |
| “ai personal shopper” | 110 | 320 | 34% |
| “ai shopping agent” | 320 | 720 | 44% |
Search
- “ai shopping assistants”
- US / month
- 1,300
- Worldwide / month
- 3,600
- US share
- 36%
- “ai shopping app”
- US / month
- 170
- Worldwide / month
- 320
- US share
- 53%
- “ai product finder”
- US / month
- 110
- Worldwide / month
- 320
- US share
- 34%
- “ai price comparison”
- US / month
- 260
- Worldwide / month
- 1,300
- US share
- 20%
- “ai deal finder”
- US / month
- 110
- Worldwide / month
- 210
- US share
- 52%
- “ai personal shopper”
- US / month
- 110
- Worldwide / month
- 320
- US share
- 34%
- “ai shopping agent”
- US / month
- 320
- Worldwide / month
- 720
- US share
- 44%
Source: Google Ads, 12-month averages. A dash means no volume reported.
Miles explains
The biggest related search is “ai price comparison”, at 1,300 searches a month worldwide.
Where the visitors to the tracked sites come from
USShare of visits that come from the US (%)
US share of worldwide search visits to all tracked sites, month by month, DataForSEO estimates.
WorldVisits a month from outside the US
Visits from outside the US a month, all tracked sites.
- India52.6%10,974
- United Kingdom21.3%4,441
- Canada9.6%2,001
- France7%1,460
- Australia4.9%1,029
- Germany3.9%809
- Brazil0.7%155
Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.