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The quiet feed revolution every eCom brand is about to face 🧐

October 21, 2025

We’re past the point of debating whether AI will change Google Search.
It already has.

Google’s new search system doesn’t just match phrases anymore — it interprets intent.

When someone types “best treatment for dry, bleached hair,” Google doesn’t just scan for those words. It’s identifying the problem behind the problem: hair damage, over-processing, moisture loss — then surfacing content and products that best fit that narrative.

Author:
Vesna Vukanovic Dumanovic,
Account Manager

Which means your Merchant Center feed isn’t just a technical asset anymore. It’s a communication channel.

If your feed isn’t optimized for meaning, your brand isn’t even in the conversation.

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The hair treatment example: How meaning beats Metadata

Let’s say you sell one hair repair mask.

To you, that’s one SKU.

To Google’s AI, it can mean five entirely different things — depending on the intent behind the search.

It could be:

  • a solution for split ends

  • a recovery treatment after bleaching

  • a hydration fix for frizzy hair

  • a shine booster for dull hair

  • a weekly ritual for maintenance

AI doesn’t see those as separate products. It sees them as separate buying motives.

But if your feed only tells it “Argan Hair Mask – 100ml,” (see screenshot) you’re giving it a single sentence when you could’ve given it five different stories.

That’s the quiet revolution no one’s talking about: feed optimization has become creative work.

Each product variant is a new way to teach Google what your product means — who it helps, what problem it solves, and why it matters.

Example: How variants expand your visibility

Variant type

Product title

Intent layer

What it triggers

Problem variant

Hair Treatment for Split Ends & Breakage

Problem

Queries like “how to fix split ends”

Cause variant

Hair Mask for Bleached & Heat-Damaged Hair

Cause

Queries like “repair hair after bleaching”

Outcome variant

Deep Repair Mask for Soft, Shiny Hair

Outcome

Queries like “best mask for shine”

Routine variant

Weekly Hair Mask for Long-Term Damage Repair

Routine

Queries like “weekly repair routine”

Ingredient variant

Argan Oil Hair Treatment for Overprocessed Hair

Mechanism

Queries like “argan oil treatment for dry hair”

Each variant is a hypothesis. Each title, a micro-campaign. Each description, a signal.

You’re not “cloning products” — you’re running semantic A/B tests to see which version of your story Google understands best.

How to think about feed optimization in 2025

In the keyword world, you optimized one SKU per ad group.

In the AI world, you optimize one SKU per meaning.

If you only have one feed entry per product, you’re limiting your surface area.
The proactive advertisers are already duplicating SKUs — not to game the system, but to train it.

If Google doesn’t understand your offer’s relevance to real human intent, it won’t surface it — no matter how good your creative or bidding strategy is.

Think of your feed like a storefront window.

You can’t sell what Google can’t describe.

AI search will be the biggest equalizer since Quality Score — and the new advantage won’t go to whoever spends the most, but to whoever communicates the clearest meaning.

The bottom line

The next revolution in advertising isn’t happening inside your ad account — it’s happening inside the data layer that feeds it.

Because, from 2025, your Merchant Center feed isn’t your catalog. Every word in a title, every image you upload, every variant you test is a signal that teaches the machine who you are, who you serve, and when to show you.

Google’s AI search, OpenAI’s ad network, Meta’s predictive engines — they’re all building around the same idea: that intent and meaning will replace keywords and categories as the core language of commerce. And meaning is what most advertisers are too lazy to provide.

That’s not the future of e-commerce.

That’s the return of real marketing.

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Vesna Vukanovic Dumanovic, Account Manager

Armed with a PhD in Knowledge Management, as well as insatiable curiosity and a can-do attitude, Vesna is an organizational powerhouse on our team. As a veteran in project management, there's no question or task you can throw at her that she wouldn't be able to tackle. That's why she's the go-to resource for education, development, and support not just for our team but for Inceptly's clients.


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