Impact is an automatic estimate of how much a story is likely to
affect one website, weighing who published it, whether Google has
confirmed a ranking change, how many outlets ran it, and whether
the wording implies work on your site. It reads headlines, not
your analytics — treat it as triage, not a verdict.
Google recently made substantial updates to my favorite piece of search documentation: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content. For years, this has been my favourite Google documentation…
I turned my 15-year archive of Google algorithm updates into an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at algo.mariehaynes.com. Here is how it was built, the architecture behind it, and how you…
Google shared some interesting information about the future of Search and AI in their most recent earnings call. While many are focusing on the first negative cash flow since their IPO 20 years ago,…
I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified their pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the…
Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working…
Google just published documentation on what they're calling the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It represents a standardized way for agents to access knowledge via very simple directories of Markdown…
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…
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…
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…
