Google Launches Global Shopping Cart Tool in the United States

The new shopping tool is available across Google Search and the Gemini app in the United States.

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"Global Cart," a tool that lets users curate and curate products they find in search and in the Gemini app, is now available to U.S. users, Google said Thursday. The company first previewed the tool at Google I/O in May.

The idea is to make online shopping easier to manage. Find something you like, save it to your cart, and move on. When you come back later, your items and shopping progress are still there, so you don't have to keep track of the same products or start over. A global cart can aggregate items from multiple retailers into a central hub for browsing and tracking potential purchases.

Google says the shopping cart can also help shoppers stay up-to-date on deals and availability. The tool can send notifications when a stocked product price drops or when an out-of-stock item becomes available again.

The tool is also designed to provide more convenient assistance during the purchase process. Google says it can take credit card points into account when helping users choose a payment method, as well as providing relevant promotional codes.

Checkout is tied to Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP, an open standard the company introduced earlier this year. UCP is designed to help AI agents and retailers collaborate across different parts of the shopping journey, including checkout.

Google is already deeply invested in AI-powered shopping, and Universal Cart is its latest effort to make the experience easier. It joins features like conversational product discovery in search AI mode and Google's "Let Google Call" tool, which uses an AI agent to call nearby stores and check stock availability.

Google is not the only company bringing artificial intelligence to e-commerce. Amazon, OpenAI, and other competitors have added agent commerce features as companies look for ways to make chatbots useful beyond answering questions.

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