{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The GEO Show","title":"AI Agents Are Becoming the Storefront","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":601,"description":"Amazon says more than 400 million customers used Alexa for shopping in the past twelve months, while Google opens Search and Gemini to third-party apps via MCP. Paris Childress covers these and five more stories in today's GEO briefing on agents becoming the storefront.\nIn this episode:\n400 million Alexa shoppers. Amazon's Q3 results say more than 400 million customers used Alexa, its agentic shopping assistant, for shopping in the past twelve months, with interactions up 570% year over year. On the earnings call, Andy Jassy said shopping through outside AI agents is still not great and no more convenient than going to a retailer directly.\nGoogle opens Search and Gemini to apps. Google launched a preview of its connected apps platform. Developers integrate through a cloud-hosted MCP server or Android app functions, then choose Search, Gemini or both. Adobe, Experian, Localiza and Peloton are already live. If you already have an API or MCP server, apply for access now.\nDirect answers in AI-cited pages. An agency study by TJ Digital of 193,507 AI answers tracked in PiqueAI found cited pages opened with a direct answer 20% of the time, versus 5% for top ten pages the AI never pulled up. The author calls these associations, not proof of cause. Disclosure: TJ Digital and PiqueAI are third parties, not affiliated with GEOforge; the study figures cited are theirs.\nSponsored products in AI Mode. Google confirmed it is testing an AI Mode format that mixes labeled sponsored products into product results, a day after expanding AI Mode ads to ten more markets. Organic product visibility may increasingly share space with ads.\nLonger, multimodal AI Mode queries. Google says AI Mode queries are three times longer than traditional searches, and more than one in six US AI Mode searches are multimodal.\nChatGPT at about 7.5% of Google. seoClarity estimates ChatGPT handles about 1.24 billion search-like messages a day, roughly 7.5% of its estimate of 16.4 billion daily Google...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7cDHOTKwTPJbamMzkSU5XMeYqbfRSPk5nMQ6zhbTeaI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kY2Ri/MGIyZjViNzJiODc5/ZGM5MmJhYmE4NmYx/MTVhYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}