WHAT A WEEK. community.mariehaynes.com/posts/gemini...

This week's Marie's Notes (paid content) is a little different - some thoughts on how we survive and thrive in this next era. Plus a bunch more! community.mariehaynes.com/spaces/12261...

Newsletter is out! So many interesting things happening! community.mariehaynes.com/posts/agenti...

Dana DiTomaso confirms that ChatGPT's new browser Atlas appears as Chrome in GA4. And, all visits appear as new visitors even if returning because Atlas doesn't use cookies. What a mess. kpplaybook.com/resources/go...

Great idea!

Were you impacted by the August 2025 spam update? I don't usually spend too much time with spam updates, but I think this one impacted a lot of decent sites. I wrote a blog post to help you determine if you were impacted and give you ideas on how to improve. www.mariehaynes.com/august-2025-...

I really like Gemini for business. The "Agents" are essentially Gems - but you can use them across your organization and they can draw on your Google Drive, Calendar, Gmails and a few other connectors. www.mariehaynes.com/a-first-look...

Did I cover any stories you missed? Honestly there is so much to stay on top of! community.mariehaynes.com/posts/search...

New blog post: Should you be investing in AI Agents? Here's what we know so far. Agents are poised to change the web as we know it! www.mariehaynes.com/should-you-b...

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."