E-commerce: a timeline
Search for online shops: Merchant Center, product feeds and listings, product structured data, variants and out-of-stock handling. Product results draw on feeds as well as pages, so a change in either can move visibility.
Latest e-commerce news · This month's e-commerce recap · RSS for this topic · What Google said about it
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October 2026 21 headlines
- An intelligent new shopping cart
- I Built a Tool to Watch ChatGPT Search, and It Predicted My Next Question
- Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent
- Google AI Mode sends 57% of product links to Google Shopping: Study
- Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions
- Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions
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September 2026 4 headlines
Spam update September 2026 spam update began 24 Sep
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August 2026 9 headlines
Spam update August 2026 spam update began 18 Aug
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July 2026 6 headlines
- 6 back-to-school shopping tricks every student should know
- The Math Behind SearchPilot: How SEO A/B Testing Actually Works
- The Math Behind SearchPilot: How SEO A/B Testing Actually Works
- Writing Unique Product Descriptions at Scale
- From SEO Maturity to AI Discoverability: Heather Physioc on What Needs to Change
- Agentic Commerce SEO: What Enterprise Ecommerce Teams Should Test Now
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June 2026 3 headlines
Spam update June 2026 spam update began 24 Jun
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May 2026 1 headline
Core update May 2026 core update began 21 May
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May 2025 2 headlines
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October 2024 1 headline
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December 2023 1 headline
How this is built
Every archived headline is tagged with topics by keyword. Each month shows the most significant e-commerce headlines by this site's impact score, plus any Google update that began that month. Months with nothing archived are left out. The archive began in earnest in mid-2025, so earlier months are thin.