Google Product Search Email on July 11th

Thank you for participating in Google Product Search.  We are reaching out to you to inform you about important changes we’re making to our Product Search required attributes and Program Policies. All merchants will be affected by these changes.

Important changes to Google Product Search feed specification & policies Reminerd

Google Shopping is reminding everybody about their policy changes.


Starting on September 22, 2011 they will be taking action against accounts with feeds targeting the United States, France, United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany that do not comply with the new specification and policy requirements.

Read More Here

Vendio Acquires SingleFeed

It was just recenlty announced on techcrunch that Vendio has acquired SingleFeed.

Amazon Experinaces Technical Issues

Amazon has posted a Technical Notification of an issue they are curently experiancing for product ad merchants

FTC to issue subpoenas in Google antitrust probe - Google Shopping is included.

By Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A published report says federal regulators are preparing to issue subpoenas to Google and other companies as authorities gather information for a broad antitrust probe into the Internet search leader’s business practices.

Technology Partnership between Ciao & ePages

The UK based comparison shopping giant Ciao has partnered with ePages.

Shopping.com System Maintenance Notification

Shopping.com will be conducting maintenance on Monday, June 20 beginning at 10am PST until 4pm PST.



During this maintenance, FTP access will be restricted as will the ability to upload a datafeed into the Merchant Account Center.



Please note that all other functionality of the Merchant Account Center will still be accessible during this time.



Any changes to the datafeed or uploads to the Shopping.com ftp should be completed prior to 10am PST or after 4pm PST on Monday, June 20