Google has a plan to keep ads alive even when AI agents do the shopping
THE SO WHAT
If Google is already designing ad formats for agentic shopping, assume your product feed and pricing will be optimized for bots, not humans. Operators should start modeling what happens when your primary customer is a ranking algorithm negotiating on behalf of users, not the users themselves.
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