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I turned my 15-year archive of Google algorithm updates into an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at algo.mariehaynes.com. Here is how it was built, the architecture behind it, and how you can connect it to Claude Desktop.

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 think Google is well on track for massive improvements. Google’s revenue is up 24% year-over-year. The reason they are cash […]

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 […]

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, […]

If you missed it, earlier this week I published a piece on everything we learned about Google’s search algorithms from the DOJ vs Google trial. Boy, there is a lot! In this article, we’ll focus on AI. Key Takeaways: -Google's AI trains on the Google Common Corpus (GCC). -A Gemini version called MAGIT fine-tunes AI […]

This morning I had a notification that as a Pro user, I can connect ChatGPT with Google Drive, Gmail and more. This service will be incredibly useful.  You can summarize things from across your Google Drive, do deep research across your Gmail and more. Let me share my experience in using these connectors. Searching across […]