Google is now answering nearly 100% of all 'People Also Ask' questions with AI Overviews, up from about 12% 14 months ago, according to Search Engine Roundtable. The company also introduced new AI-rel…
Google has expanded its Merchant Center AI Performance Insights report with new metrics for AI Search intent, AI Search terms, and AI attributes, as spotted by SEO expert Brodie Clark. The report, whi…
Google Merchant Center accidentally exposed the AI prompts behind its performance insights, showing instructions such as 'thinking,' 'role,' and 'Formatting' instead of a summary. SEO professional Vip…
A federal judge in Virginia ruled against breaking up Google's ad tech business, ordering Google to end practices that depress ad rates for web publishers but declining to order divestiture of its ad …
Google has expanded its Merchant Center AI performance insights to merchants in Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand, adding to the initial rollout in the United States in July. The reports, avai…
Google Search is testing fully expanded AI Overviews for some queries, pushing users into AI Mode without requiring a click on the 'Show more' button, and is now showing shopping ads in a carousel for…
A new study by EightOhTwo reveals that 37% of customers now begin their product journey on AI rather than Google, and 51% use AI specifically to answer questions, signaling a shift that demands enrich…
A developer outlines five AI infrastructure layers that determine whether a Shopify store's product data is cited by AI agents in 2026, emphasizing that citation problems often stem from rendering, fe…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on August 21, 2026, pricing every image at up to 384 tokens with no vision surcharge, making bulk product-catalogue image QA cost about $0.000225 per ima…
Ruby Rose Bloom, a self-hosted vintage storefront, discovered that Google Merchant Center offers multiple distinct surfaces, each fed by different mechanisms. After three days of investigation, the ow…
A March 2026 study by Tom Wells found that 83% of products in ChatGPT's shopping carousels matched Google's top 40 organic Shopping results, with 60% of strong matches coming from the top 10 results, …