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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 […]

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,  […]