A familiar part of Google shopping searches is disappearing across Europe. Organic product carousels, often displayed as “Popular products,” have largely vanished from search results in the European Economic Area. According to data from Productrise, their appearance across monitored commercial searches dropped by roughly 90% to 100% within days in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Outside the EEA, including the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, Productrise observed no comparable decline. For European retailers, the change removes a prominent source of free product visibility and could alter how shoppers move from Google searches to individual product pages. From…
Big updates are underway for AI-driven product data integration. During the current two-week development sprint, Icecat is adding Full Icecat support directly to its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This enhancement will unlock seamless access to complete catalog depth for enterprise workflows and AI agents everywhere for users that have a paid Full Icecat subscription. In the pilot phase, only Open Icecat data was available. This phase allowed us to monitor adoption, user requirements, stability and security of this new agentic interface. The number of monthly active users (MAU) has been growing steadily to around 30 in July and August.…
