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Product thinking, search insights, and launch notes.

Articles for teams building smarter search, better discovery, and more useful suggestion experiences.

August 22, 2026

Can an AI Shopping Assistant Actually Search Your Catalog? A 6-Point Check

A practical checklist for live inventory, intent, variants, policies, storefront handoff, and discovery analytics — without replacing your search engine.

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Diagram of a product catalog flowing through a structured search layer so an AI shopping assistant can match live inventory, variants, and a storefront handoff.

August 19, 2026

SuggestAPI Skills: Give Your Coding Agent the Right Search Playbook

Job-specific Agent Skills for catalog search, autocomplete, Shopify, migrations, agent retrieval, and catalog ingestion — so the agent follows the playbook, not a guess.

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Diagram of a coding agent loading SuggestAPI Skills playbooks for catalog search, autocomplete, Shopify, migrations, and ingestion while keeping provider credentials on the server.

August 15, 2026

SuggestAPI Adds UCP Catalog Search Support

Tenant-scoped Universal Commerce Protocol catalog search over REST — free-text queries, category and price filters, and cursor pagination without replatforming checkout.

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Diagram of an AI shopping assistant sending a product request through SuggestAPI UCP Catalog Search to a tenant merchant catalog, then handing off to storefront checkout.

August 3, 2026

Utilizing Google Shopping Feeds for Ecommerce AI SEO

Why your Merchant Center feed now drives AI Mode and AI Overviews visibility — and how SuggestAPI publishes a Shopping-compatible feed from your search index.

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Diagram of a product catalog flowing through a Google Shopping feed into AI Mode and shopping discovery surfaces.

July 25, 2026

Beyond llms.txt: How to Make Your Ecommerce Catalog Truly Agent-Ready

Why static AI guidance is only the starting point—and live commerce needs structured capability discovery, current catalog search, and safe checkout handoff.

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An ecommerce product catalog flowing through a structured capability network to AI search, product selection, and merchant-controlled checkout handoff.

July 21, 2026

Autocomplete API Reddit

The questions teams ask before they pick an autocomplete API — without a vendor bake-off or a search migration.

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Illustration of a developer at work with ecommerce and discovery icons, representing evaluation of autocomplete search software.

July 16, 2026

SuggestAPI Now Supports the HTTP QUERY Method

HTTP QUERY (RFC 10008) brings safe, idempotent semantics to structured full-search requests — with POST /query still available for compatibility.

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Technical diagram of an HTTP QUERY request carrying a structured JSON body through a search API layer to catalog backends.

July 16, 2026

SuggestAPI Implements Google’s Agentic Resource Discovery Specification

SuggestAPI now publishes an ARD-compatible catalog — The Discovery Layer for AI Agents and an Agent Search Layer for live commerce.

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Abstract diagram of agentic resource discovery: a central capability catalog connected to APIs, tools, and commerce search surfaces.

July 9, 2026

Google ARD Reddit

What Agentic Resource Discovery actually is — and how it differs from a text file and a checkout bot.

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Abstract diagram of agentic resource discovery: a central capability catalog connected to APIs, tools, and commerce search surfaces.

June 17, 2026

The OpenRouter for Search: Why Retrieval Needs an Abstraction Layer

One API for every search engine. Route queries, normalize results, and stay in control — the universal retrieval layer for AI agents.

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Diagram showing SuggestAPI as the OpenRouter for Search: one API routing LLM applications to Algolia, Typesense, Elasticsearch, and Meilisearch.

June 14, 2026

SuggestAPI Now Supports Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

Expose curated knowledge as structured, agent-ready OKF bundles using Google's open standard.

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Open Knowledge + SuggestAPI: your search powers the knowledge, automatically.

May 20, 2026

Search Suggestions API Reddit

Why prefix autocomplete fails in production, and what a search suggestions API should return before the shopper hits Enter.

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Futuristic illustration of a search query flowing into a network and ranked suggestion results for a search suggestions API.

May 13, 2026

How to Choose Autocomplete Search Software for a Modern Product

A practical evaluation guide for teams comparing autocomplete API tools, typeahead products, and search suggestion systems.

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Illustration of a developer at work with ecommerce and discovery icons, representing evaluation of autocomplete search software.

May 12, 2026

What a Search Suggestions API Should Do Before the User Hits Enter

Why the strongest suggestion systems help users make progress instead of only predicting text.

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Futuristic illustration of a search query flowing into a network and ranked suggestion results for a search suggestions API.

May 8, 2026

Modern Agents Need Search, but They Also Need Intent Understanding

Why production AI agents need both retrieval and intent-aware ranking to turn fuzzy requests into the right next action.

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A visual showing raw data sources feeding an AI agent search system that performs semantic matching and intent ranking before routing to the user's goal.

May 6, 2026

Understanding the Dimensions of User Intent: A Key to Modern Search

A practical framework for how content understanding, user understanding, and domain understanding work together to power intent-aware search.

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A three-circle diagram showing Content Understanding, User Understanding, and Domain Understanding intersecting around User Intent.