Surfaces · Search + feeds grounding

How Gemini reads your catalog

Gemini grounds answers in Google Search, product feeds and the business listings Google already holds — the same signals that have long powered Shopping and local results, now read by the assistant. Category and attribute discipline decide who surfaces.

What it ranks on

• A clean product feed and/or complete on-page structured data.
• Correct category and rich, normalized attributes — product attributes for a shop, service areas and hours for a local business, plan tiers for software.
• Identifiers that match you to the record Google already has.
• Detail that is current and machine-readable: availability, price, opening hours.

What breaks

• No feed and no structured data — you're invisible to feed-based answers.
• Miscategorized or attribute-poor entries that can't be filtered.
• Stale or missing availability and hours, which suppresses recommendation.