Thursday, October 29, 2026
10 stories · 2 topics · 7 outlets
Answer Engines
8ChatGPT Shopping treats US and European merchants differently
ChatGPT Shopping draws on OpenAI's Labrador product-feed index in the United States but still returns Google Shopping results through a third-party API in Europe, according to Peec AI, which used an OpenAI debug API. In US tests a store without verified-seller status placed none of its products in the carousel, though it appeared in 25 of 32 candidate products. ChatGPT cuts each product description to 50 tokens, about 40 English words, and scores only that opening text; Peec AI advises sending product feeds to OpenAI, putting the important details first and keeping Google Shopping in order until Labrador reaches Europe.
You Can Now Build Apps For Google Search: Connected Apps Platform
Google opened a preview of a Connected Apps Platform that lets developers bring app capabilities directly into Gemini and Google Search. Google described it as a unified way for more app developers to reach its AI experiences.
YouTube, Facebook and Reddit are the most-cited sources in French AI Overviews
Converteo and Qwairy analysed the AI Overview summaries Google shows for consumer queries in France. The sources cited and the competing brands named vary widely from one query to the next.
Google Expands Ads In AI Mode To More Countries & Multiturn Ads In U.S.
Google is expanding ads in AI Mode to Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Singapore, with Brazil, Mexico and the United Kingdom due in the fourth quarter. Ads will also run against follow-up questions in the United States.
Yahoo Shopping starts AI Best Proposal, ranking products by price, delivery, rating and overall best
LINE Yahoo started an AI Best Proposal feature in Yahoo Shopping that ranks products in categories for price, delivery, rating and an overall best pick. Its AI comparison now counts coupons, points and shipping when it ranks on price.
Customer reviews and generative AI: reputation now plays out in LLM answers
Shoppers ask AI assistants which brand to buy, and the answers draw mainly on customer reviews. How a language model summarises those reviews, and how much weight it gives them, decides whether a brand gets named.
The invisible sale: customers an AI sends elsewhere, unseen
A growing share of purchases is settled inside a conversation with an AI assistant. Brands that get picked attribute the sale to another channel, and the brands that lose see no trace of the customer, according to Journal du Net.
Research & Data
2AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer
Pages that AI assistants cited answered a question in their opening lines more often than other pages, according to an analysis reported by Search Engine Journal. The gap narrowed when cited pages were compared with pages the tools retrieved but did not cite.
Google loses ground as French shoppers turn to AI for purchases
An Ipsos survey for Eskimoz found that 52% of French people use at least one AI tool every week, Siècle Digital reports. The outlet says AI is also taking a growing share of purchases as Christmas approaches.