Google is telling us in writing what it plans to go after next: scaled AI content, fake authors, and the GEO tactics built to game AI answers.

Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation beca...

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Google shared some interesting information about the future of Search and AI in their most recent earnings call. While many are focusing on the first negative cash flow since their IPO 20 years ago, I...

It’s Google earnings call time! Here’s the full call: - July 22, 2026 You can find the earnings releases here: https://abc.xyz/investor/ Here are my notes from the Q1 2026 earnings call. Here are my n...

I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified their pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the p...

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Google and 10 others shipped Agentic Resource Discovery. I added an ai-catalog.json to this site, validated it against the official tool, and a reference client discovered my capabilities. Here is the...

Google just published documentation on what they're calling the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It represents a standardized way for agents to access knowledge via very simple directories of Markdown fil...

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Tracking your performance in Google’s AI Overviews & AI Mode Google is giving us brand new information within our Google Search Consoles to tell us how our content is being used in AI Overviews, AI Mo...

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Marie’s Notes from the Google I/O 2026 Keynote Looks like it’s going to be a good one! Watch the event here: Notes starting soon… Where to find me (Marie Haynes): Stay up to date with everything ha...

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Search News You Can Use May 12, 2026 Here are the topics I have been discussing with my clients recently. 1. A rise in crawled - currently not indexed pages There has been significant chatter on socia...

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Search and AI News You Can Use (Marie's Newsletter) In this episode I’m going to share the top five things I’ve been discussing with clients this week. I’m finding that playing around with some of the...

Hello! 👋 This started off as a quick post about why I'm moving my newsletter back to my blog and ended up turning into a full article of my thoughts on the value of blogging today. In 14 years of writ...

Google app for desktop is now available for Windows users around the world in English

I really enjoyed this interview with Sundar Pichai by John Collison and Elad Gil of Stripe. Watch this video on YouTube Here are the 5 most interesting things I learned. 1. Search will still exist in ...

Google's TurboQuant vector search breakthrough enables real-time semantic search, gives AI agents boundless memory, and powers smarter robotics.

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Hello! 👋Once again, I’m trying out this new format for newsletter where instead of sharing everything that happened in Search and AI I’m focusing on the most important things that I’m discussing wi...

Hello! 👋(This is my free newsletter. A new format this week focusing on a few topics rather than everything.)It’s a new season for me - a building one. I’ll share more at the end of this episode on...

The December 2025 core update had a significant impact on a large number of sites. Each of the sites below that have done well are either long term clients, past clients or sites that I have done a si...

Once again, I’ll be taking live notes during Google’s earnings call. You can find the earnings releases here: https://abc.xyz/investor/ Here are my notes from the Q3 earnings call. Note: If you are g...

OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman - Jan 26, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpxv-8nG8ec These are my notes from this session where Sam Altman answered questions from X and from a live audience. If...

Let me see if I can convince you! I’ve shared a bunch in this video and summarized my thoughts in the article below. Also, this is the second blog post I've written on this topic in the last week. The...

I found some interesting things from the latest document in the DOJ vs Google trial. Google has appealed the ruling that says they need to give proprietary information to competitors. Key takeaways: G...

Last night I dreamed about Gemini 3 Flash. Why can't I have normal dreams, lol? I expect Google will announce it today based on how all of the Google accounts are tweeting ⚡⚡⚡.Gemini 3 Flash should...