eBay has long tried to stop other companies from scraping its site, and in the fall, it quietly added “buy for me” AI agents to the list of prohibited crawlers in its robots.txt file. This week, eBay informed customers by Read more
In the space of 4 days, Etsy announced it would make sellers’ items available for purchase directly on Microsoft Copilot Checkout and in Google Search AI Mode, coming just 3 months after it made a similar announcement when it integrated Read more
It’s hard enough to detect if your buyer is a scammer, but now sellers must be able to determine if buyers are even human, and what having AI bots as buyers means for the validity of their purchases. The topic Read more
BigCommerce’s parent company is changing its name from BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. to Commerce.com, Inc., but the BigCommerce brand will remain in place for its ecommerce platform. According to the company, the move reflects a major shift in how ecommerce platforms Read more
Can Gen-AI shopping agents improve the shortcomings of algorithm-based search engines? If the answer is yes, an improved shopping experience could give eBay sellers who are frustrated with the current state of Search reason to celebrate. But as sellers have Read more
