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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Imagine a web where a machine fills out your lead forms, buys your products, and negotiates with your backend. While many SEOs are currently arguing over whether to block AI search bots, whether to call ourselves SEOs or GEOS, or optimizing to get mentioned in ChatGPT, the reality of the web is moving far past […]

I enjoyed this interview with Google’s head of Search Liz Reid on the ACCESS Podcast with Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger. Watch this video on YouTube   Liz talked a lot about the future of Search. Here are the 5 most interesting parts. Will agents eventually do most of the activity on the web? Yes, […]

Last week Google launched Gemini Enterprise and although I see very few people talking about it, I think this tool will likely be used by most businesses. There are two features that make it extremely useful: 1) You can use Gemini across your Google Docs, Calendar and Gmail. 2) You can create Agents that your […]