SerpApi introduced a Markdown Output feature that formats search results as LLM-optimized Markdown across all 100+ search engines, delivering an average 50% token savings (up to 90%+ on complex engine…
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…
Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product search, which achieved a mean precision@10 of 0.63…
A new analysis reveals that 70% of top retailers are unprepared for agentic commerce, where AI handles the entire customer journey from discovery to checkout. The finding comes as OpenAI and Google ra…
Google has rolled out a new default setting called Search Services History that saves user-uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and files, to train its generative AI models. The setting…
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
AI agents are beginning to search, compare, recommend, negotiate, and complete transactions on behalf of users, creating a new paradigm called agentic commerce. This shift requires common protocols fo…