As a response to Amazon, Google’s new umbrella program will widen existing relationships with retails. It will also enable comprehensive checkout across platforms and devices. Google has been focusing on retail challenges for some time. The major issues are:-
- How to make mobile shopping through its properties like Search quicker?
- How to maintain market share for product search in a breaking mobile landscape of digital assistants and applications?
- How to compete with Amazon, the major threat to product search coming from Google.
All these factors relate to how to make more money from product searches.
Recently, Google announced a new effort known as Shopping Actions which builds on existing programs and pairs its product search, mobile shopping, inter-device transactions and voice search initiatives. The program indicates Google’s existing partnerships with Target and Walmart in order to support shopping through Google Express and Google Assistant. Google extends it to other retailers also.