My Notes are out for this week. I thoroughly enjoyed writing this episode. Oh, and also, ChatGPT Agent logged in to Canva for me and made this week's thumbnail! community.mariehaynes.com/spaces/12261...

Search Live is going to change how we get information. Notice in this video how websites are surfaced? Very cool, but also people are going to have their search satisfied without needing to click. www.youtube.com/shorts/5oa-T...

What questions do you have about the role of AI agents for your business? I'm putting together some resources to help us plan and prepare. Google says that every enterprise will rely on multiple agents. Yet the advice is all so vague!

Just sent out Marie's Notes to Search Bar Pro members. This week's episode gives you a bunch of ideas for things to make in AI Studio, a Google Colab you can use to see what ChatGPT is extracting from your pages and more... community.mariehaynes.com/spaces/12261...

New blog post - this is part 2 of what we learned from the latest DOJ vs Google trial documents. This time, about AI. www.mariehaynes.com/google-doj-t...

There's so much to learn about how Google's ranking systems work from the latest DOJ vs Google trial documentation. ⚫ The webpage itself is more important than links. ⚫ Chrome data is indeed used for ranking. ⚫ Crawl frequency is determined by user popularity. www.mariehaynes.com/what-googles...

I learned so much from Alan. Will never forget his gigantic smile the first time I ran into him at the Breeze bar in Vegas for Pubcon. Alan gave so much to this industry. He will be missed immensely. 😢

Lots of great stuff in this week’s Marie’s Notes! All a part of a Search Bar Pro Membership. The notes: community.mariehaynes.com/spaces/12261... Get a one month trial of Search Bar Pro: community.mariehaynes.com/plans/1890041

If you don't have time to read the full 30+ pages of newsletter this week, the NotebookLM video overview is actually quite good! youtu.be/fqxLfEK4OwQ

OK this is cool. Gemini will now read your Google Docs for you.

New this week in Marie’s Notes (my paid newsletter) - each tip has a prompt you can use to apply it specifically to your website or situation. For those folks whose content I’ve drawn from, I’ve sent you a message with a link to this week’s episode. community.mariehaynes.com/spaces/12261...

So much to know! I’m now publishing newsletter every 2 weeks and on alternating weeks Marie’s Notes - my paid newsletter. MN is improving - shorter, but more actionable with strategies and prompts. Here’s what happened in the last 2 weeks: community.mariehaynes.com/posts/more-a...

Tomorrow is the first ever Kaggle LLM chess tourney. LLMs will face off against each other in a tournament. Join us in the Search Bar for the watch party! (This is a free event in the Search Bar.) community.mariehaynes.com/posts/886408... Tournament details: www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/k...

I've opened up a free trial for anyone considering a Search Bar Pro membership. We are working together to become the leaders in understanding AI as it changes our world. Would love to have you join us! community.mariehaynes.com/plans/189004...

The new NotebookLM feature to generate an explainer video from your sources is incredible. I added a number of sources ranging from official Google documentation, to my notes, to blog posts from AI leaders regarding the future. Then I pressed Generate Video and it made this. youtu.be/ONHjD3mah3M

I'm seeing "Web" as a tab in search. (I need to have my VPN on to see it.) Web Guide looks super helpful. You get little AI summaries followed by websites. A really good mixture of AI plus the web.

Google Web guide like quite good. Do you think this will become the norm for search?

Lots going on in Search and AI this week! community.mariehaynes.com/posts/ai-mod...

I asked ChatGPT Operator to work with Gemini and write some funny jokes about AI. youtu.be/ok0OLLh9KNo

My assistant Gemini and I had a good look at a number of sites that did really well following the June 2025 Core update. In each case, it was really clear that Google did just what they said they would, surfacing helpful content from all types of sites. www.mariehaynes.com/analyzing-pa...

Grok 4 is quite good. Elon said it's PhD level across all disciplines, so I tested it with some hard SEO questions. Voice mode is incredible. Although, Elon's comments on whether AI is going to be good or bad for humanity were a little frightening! www.mariehaynes.com/some-thought...

A must read!

My 12 year old wants to learn guitar, so I made her this using Gemini with canvas. g.co/gemini/share... It teaches the basic chords and links to YT videos. You can put in what chords you know and it finds you tutorials for songs that use those chords. It also generates a practice plan for you.

🔍 Google MUVERA 🆕 June 2025 core update 💡 AI Mode is live in India, spotted in Australia 💰 Cloudflare has a plan to make AI bots pay to scrape content 👓 Google invested $100m in eyewear ⚛️ Google invested in fusion! community.mariehaynes.com/posts/muvera...

Google just greatly improved their ability to return relevant results. I dug into MUVERA - a new technique Google invented that allows them to find more precise passages, sentences or even words in documents. More here: www.mariehaynes.com/understandin...

Could optimising for vector search do more harm than good? If you optimise for machines but not people, you might signal to Google that your site’s less helpful. Learn more: www.mariehaynes.com/could-optimi...

ChatGPT Pro users (the $200/m plan) can now use ChatGPT connectors to connect your Gmail, Google Docs and more to your ChatGPT conversations. I tested it out and wow, is it helpful: www.mariehaynes.com/chatgpt-now-...

Good life advice for this weekend. 🔥 (Going to try and take the Panda's advice myself.)

This is the first time I've seen an AI leader recommend llms.txt. Andrej Karpathy says that if we are building for agents, we can help them by using an llms.txt file to tell the LLM what they need to know about your website. youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?...

So much in newsletter! 👉AI Mode migrating to Search over time 👉Audio Overviews in Search results 👉Charts and visualizations in AI Mode 👉Gemini in Chrome 👉ChatGPT Search improved 👉Autotranslated pages may be ok? 👉The web should be around for another 2-3 years. 😮 👉OpenAI and Google partner ?!?

This could be why we're seeing so many impressions now. 🤔

I don't know why this struck me as funny. Yeah, it was helpful to see the widening gap of impressions vs queries I suppose.

How will Google monetize AI Mode? youtube.com/shorts/abUhT...

Sundar Pichai confirmed that AI Mode is the future of Search. Here's a blog post along with some questions to help you brainstorm on how your business can adapt. www.mariehaynes.com/ai-mode-is-t...

Sergey Brin answers, "What does the web look like in 10 years?" youtube.com/shorts/TTsG-...

I just noticed that Gems can be used in Google docs now! These are a couple of Gems I created previously. How incredibly helpful to have these right in my Google docs.

There's something odd going on with indexing. Many sites are seeing drops starting May 27 and it seems the pages are mostly in crawled, not currently indexed. I looked at a bunch of sites to see what types of pages were impacted: www.mariehaynes.com/an-interesti...

It was an honour to attend Google I/O in person. Search is changing radically! Google called it a new era of Search with Gemini 2.5 at its core. This podcast episode was recorded live. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3w...

Here's a fun prompt. Based on what you know of me, surprise me with something. ChatGPT suggested to me today that my thoughts on optimizing boil down to this formula: helpfulness = (intent coverage × originality) ÷ cognitive friction.

Join me for a live Podcast at noon EST today as we break down AI Mode, Live Search, Project Mariner, Gemini in Chrome, Agentic Search, Buy for me with Google and more! community.mariehaynes.com/events/googl... This is a free event in the Search Bar. Will be recorded & shared on YT.

Veo 3 (with sound) is live for 70+ countries now in Gemini Advanced! My prompt, "A real life Panda and penguin talking about how they changed SEO in 2012."

So much important news was announced at Google I/O: 👉AI Mode - makes synthetic subqueries, searches, and synthesizes info. 👉Gemini Live Search - Search with your camera / glasses. 👉Gemini in glasses - I demoed. The prototype was dorky but cool! ⬇️

Hey AI Darth Vader, will OpenAI or Google reach AGI first? www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiC...

Hey Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06. Write me some code that gives a graphical depiction of how technology has advanced over time and predict into the future. 🚀

Should you use Google-Extended in Robots.txt? -It stops Google from using your content to train future Gemini models -It does not stop Google from using your content in AI Overviews Here's more plus a link to a GPT to help you decide. www.mariehaynes.com/should-you-u...

Another YT Short from me! Here's what Demis Hassabis said about agents. They are set to disrupt how we use the web. youtube.com/shorts/ctYlW... Original video this interview is from: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0G...

A few notes from Google's Q1 2025 earnings call: -AI Overviews have over 1.5 billion users per month. (Not sure if users means interacted with them or just saw them.) -Gemma models have been downloaded > 140 million times -Alpha fold is being used by over 2.5 million researchers. ⬇️

Look what ChatGPT and I built this afternoon! A slack bot that draws from my most recent newsletter and creates a trivia game. Would you use this? The idea is to make it fun to learn about what's happening in AI.

GPT 4.5 passed the Turing test! In a recent study, people conversed with both ChatGPT and humans. 73% of the time they picked ChatGPT as the human. (Experimenting with some YT shorts now. LMK if you like it!) www.youtube.com/shorts/pOjuw...

Can hardly tell it's AI. 😂