New podcast episode! In this episode I share about Gemini in Chrome, how I built a plant journal with Antigravity, UCP, WebMCP, WordPress' EmDash, Shopify's AI Toolkit, Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch and more. youtu.be/CmhzPhGGe1o

I did something different with my newsletter this week. I asked Gemini to look at the transcripts from my client calls and Search Bar meetings and pull out the actionable topics I could use to write about. www.mariehaynes.com/the-agentic-...

I'm rethinking the purpose of blogging. www.mariehaynes.com/im-rethinkin...

Big news for Windows users! Hit Alt+Space to open the new Google app over any window. It searches the web, local files, apps & Google Drive, plus features AI & Lens. Search is becoming more of a built-in tool than a destination for information. blog.google/products-and...

Learned a bunch from Sundar Pichai's latest interview. -Search is becoming agentic -Google uses Antigravity internally (they call it Jet Ski) -AI is doing great things for robotics -OpenClaw like systems are the future -Big changes for AI coming in 2027 www.mariehaynes.com/what-i-learn...

Just sent out an episode of Marie's Notes to paid subscribers. My thoughts on how people who know AI will get rich as this new era unfolds. I'm very excited for tomorrow's Search Bar Pro meeting where we'll discuss how members are using Claude Cowork! community.mariehaynes.com/spaces/12261...

This week, Google announced a huge breakthrough, called TurboQuant. TurboQuant makes it significantly faster to assemble and query a vector space. Their abstract says that it reduces the time needed to build and index for vector search to "virtually zero." www.mariehaynes.com/turboquant-h...

An excellent read!

Soon, your agents will negotiate with my agents, and eventually those who understand how agents work will make a lot of money. Full chat with @lizmicik.bsky.social on AI agent protocols marketers need to know is here: youtu.be/i_sAhytJFg8

I really enjoyed chatting with @lizmicik.bsky.social. If you want to be up to speed on the way the web is changing to be an agentic web, we break down MCP, A2A, AP2 and other protocols that every marketer needs to know. youtu.be/i_sAhytJFg8

New newsletter is out! Instead of giving you a novel to read, I'm now focusing on the most important things I'm discussing with my clients. 🎨 Canvas in AI Mode 🛒 Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): New documentation 💻 Google Workspace CLI community.mariehaynes.com/posts/canvas...

The three most important topics to discuss this week (IMO): 1. WebMCP 2. UCP 3. Self Improving Agents are bringing us closer to the singularity. New format this week! community.mariehaynes.com/posts/webmcp...

New blog post on 4 sites that did well following the December 2025 core update! www.mariehaynes.com/the-december...

A new type of core update! This one impacts Discover. Less clickbait. More in-depth, original and timely content from websites with expertise. US English only (for now.)

Google's Q4 earnings call starts soon. I'm live-note-taking again. Here are my notes if you want to follow along: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Here are my full notes from the OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What if user satisfaction is the MOST important factor in SEO? The algorithm's only job is to predict what users will love. Our goal is to figure out how to be that result. New blog post: www.mariehaynes.com/what-if-user...

There was some real gold in Liz Reid's declaration in Google's appeal of the DOJ vs Google judgment. There are some nuggets here about user data as it is used to train GLUE (a form of Navboost) and RankEmbed BERT. Wrote it all up in a new blog post: www.mariehaynes.com/user-data-in...

Listened to @mariehaynes.bsky.social explain Google's UCP -- worth 20 minutes. AI agents can now complete purchases without leaving the conversation. No website. No checkout. Your site might not be in the journey at all.

This newsletter is a fun one with some super important info in it. It starts off with info on how I built tools with AntiGravity to research the latest treatments and rapidly speed up my healing from frozen shoulder. And boy is AI progressing quickly! community.mariehaynes.com/posts/person...

The core update is live & seems impactful, Gemini is now showing rich visual results for local. GPT 5.2 is live and good, image generation has improved, and the bit about Alpha Evolve being in preview has me freaked out. community.mariehaynes.com/posts/dec-co...

Updated my algo update list. Loads of new things happening! www.mariehaynes.com/resources/al...

A great chat about the future! Ty @shelleywalsh.bsky.social for inviting me on to your podcast.

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...