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Conversational is much the same as writing a prompt to Google's Gemini or in the search engine's AI Mode: You can ask for recommendations for a product based on an individual's taste or needs, and you'll receive suggestions that relate as closely to the request as possible. During an event for showing off these shopping features, one example included searching in AI Mode for a skin moisturizer that's particularly helpful for the cold winter months.
Google is testing showing the option ot track price changes for hotel results by email. We saw Google announce a similar feature back in March but now it is showing in the local hotel pack results in core search. This was spotted by Ethan H. who posted about this on LinkedIn - he told me "this feature was just added to the metasearch section of their GMB listings (not just maps/hotels section)." "We tend to look at these sections daily," he added.