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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 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 […]

It does seem that Google's plans are to eventually give us more and more AI Mode features in the traditional Search results. A user on X commented that AI Mode should become the default and Google Product Manager Logan Kilpatrick replied with "soon 🙂". However, Logan clarified that AI Mode is not likely to replace […]

I had the privilege of being invited to Google I/O 2025. And boy, what an event!  Google said that AI Mode is the start of a new era, with Search being transformed with Gemini 2.5 at its core. Search is changing dramatically.  I met Google CEO Sundar Pichai and sat in a fireside chat with […]

Google Extended is a control mechanism you can use in your robots.txt file to tell Google not to use your content for training its future Gemini models. It also stops Google from using your content for grounding conversations in Gemini. However, it’s important to know that a Google-Extended disallow in your robots.txt does not block Google […]