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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 page indexing report in Google Search Console. In almost every case I’ve examined these pages have quality issues. They […]

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve essentially built my own personal brain, and today I want to show you how it […]

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 files. While storing files in Markdown is nothing new, Google is now creating a specific standard that agents can understand without the need for specific software […]

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 Mode, and the AI features in Discover. If you have been wondering whether your SEO efforts are actually landing you […]

Google just shared more information to help us get our websites ready for agents. There is a new report from Lighthouse which anybody can run. You do not need external software to run it. You can do it right from within your Chrome browser. The report tells you whether your website is discoverable for AI […]

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 social media about Google showing more pages in the Page indexing section of GSC that are marked as “crawled […]

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 these new capabilities of Gemini, in particular Gemini in Chrome has given me a bit of an existential crisis! 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 writing my newsletter, it has gone through a lot of changes. I want to share […]

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 the future, but much of it will be agentic Sundar was asked if agents will replace Search. He said,  […]

Google published a blog post on a new breakthrough in vector search technology called TurboQuant. The potential implications of this technology for Search are staggering! TurboQuant is a suite of advanced algorithms that drastically reduce AI processing size and memory requirements. Their blog post says, “This has potentially profound implications…especially in the domains of Search […]