FAQs for Google’s ‘Preferred Sources’
Google’s recently announced “preferred sources” feature is not exactly new. The feature, which allows searchers to designate…
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More
What’s !important #12 talks about the old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new…
Zalando partners with Vestiaire Collective
Online fashion platform Zalando has partnered with French second-hand platform Vestiaire Collective. The partnership is an effort…
2 Bootstrapped D2C Brands, 1 CEO
For four years Eric Steckling has run two direct-to-consumer brands. Brio, the company he founded in 2014,…
How Content Marketers Misuse GenAI
The best genAI content is verified and scrutinized by humans. Generative AI can make content marketing faster,…
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing
Some text effects are relatively hard to pull in CSS, the main reason being we are unable…
‘One in five Spanish ecommerce sellers on TikTok Shop’
TikTok Shop has established a strong position in Spain’s ecommerce market in a relatively short time. Both…
‘JD.com eyes Very Group takeover’
JD.com is looking to make another move to strengthen its position in the European ecommerce market. The…
What Foreign Merchants Miss in India
India’s Unified Payments Interface is a government-backed peer-to-peer infrastructure launched in 2016. It allows seamless payments between…
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
How GenAI Platforms Produce Answers
Google’s recent AI optimization guidelines apply only to its search portal with AI Overviews and AI Mode, and…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…
How Foreign Brands Sell into Africa
Foreign brands rarely rely on a single channel when selling into Africa. They layer marketplaces, retail partnerships,…
Breuninger launches in Denmark, Sweden and Romania
Breuninger is expanding online again after several years. The retailer is launching its online store in three…
Ecommerce without Merchant-Owned Carts
Google announced a comprehensive shopping cart that could soon be available across the search giant’s app ecosystem….
Digital Catalogs Become Adaptive Commerce Tools
Many digital catalogs still prioritize visual design over shopper behavior, limiting their ability to drive conversions. Digital…
In-person payments and Point of Sale are live in 13 new countries
If you sell at markets, pop-ups, or brick-and-mortar stores in one of these countries, you’ve probably been…
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about. Source: Data…
New Ecommerce Tools: May 20, 2026
This installment of our weekly rundown of new services for merchants includes rollouts for quick commerce, SMS…
Turkish online spending reached 86 billion euros
Last year, the transaction volume in Türkiye has increased more than 52 percent, reaching 4.57 trillion Turkish…
Otto opens to Polish sellers
Otto is preparing to open its marketplace to sellers in Poland. A pilot program will begin next…
Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions
I wasted an entire Saturday on this. Not a lazy Saturday either, but one of those rare,…
Google Says AI Optimization Is Just SEO
Google has finally published guidance for AI optimization. Yet “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on…