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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 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 […]

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, […]

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 site review for. While we can never say with certainty what changed as the result of a […]

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. There is much more information on user-data and how Google uses it in my previous blog […]

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: Google has been ordered to give information to competitors so as not to be an illegal monopoly. Google does not want to give […]