As of earlier today, finalists in all categories for this year’s Google Premier Partner Awards were announced and published at:

https://premierpartnerawards.withgoogle.com/en/finalists

First, a big congratulations to all finalists in all categories.

And yes, if you checked that list, Sales & Orders is one of 7 finalists in the Shopping Innovation category!

We're extremely excited to announce that through our newly launched Comparison Shopping Service, PriceJoy®, we are now an Official Google CSS Partner.

By leveraging PriceJoy®, both EU-based and EU-targeting retailers can now list their products in the new, dedicated positions for Comparison Shopping Services on Google Shopping.

We’re starting to see Google’s latest overhaul of Merchant Center and we are really liking the new look and feel of it.

The change was made to the Feed Diagnostics section. Google not only cleaned up the aesthetics, but they also added a lot more ease to filtering (among a few other “upgrades”).

It was the major talk of the town for a few months this year: The EU’s incredible anti-trust case against Google, but more specifically how Google had to alter Google Shopping in the European market altogether.

(You can read the exact details outlined in a memo released by the European Commission here.)

The bare bones of it all essentially boiled down to the belief that Google was allegedly abusing its market hold over comparison shopping in the EU. The European Commission alleged that Google was “favoring its own content and thus muscling out” its competitors in the various CSEs or Comparison Shopping Engines out there.

Google has announced this years updates to Product Feed Specifications!

We see these every year as Google continues to seek to improve the Shopping experience for both consumers and retailers alike.

This years updates follow a bit of a theme in that certain requirements and how products may be disapproved are being relaxed.