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Where Jev Fits in a Large-Scale Data Pipeline
Jev raised our product categorization accuracy from 81.9% to 97.2% at about the same cost, when we used it to choose from 30 prefiltered categories. Searching the full taxonomy with it was too expensive.
·By Evan Fenster
Channel3 vs Shopify Catalog
A single-platform storefront catalog vs. a cross-retailer product data API for AI shopping agents
·By Channel3
Channel3 vs Tavily
General Web Search vs. a Purpose-Built Product Data Layer
·By Channel3
Channel3 vs Keenable
Web-Scale Search Infrastructure vs. a Purpose-Built Product Data Layer
·By Channel3
Product Updates
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How to Search Products by Color with the Channel3 API (Color Filters, Now in Beta)
Add one or more hex colors to your Channel3 POST /v1/search call to get products that match. How color filters work, with examples. Live in beta.
·By Channel3
Google's Conversational Attributes, Explained — and How to Get AI-Ready Product Data Fast
Google added conversational attributes to Merchant Center so AI can understand your products. Here are the six new fields, why they matter, and how to get AI-ready product data in minutes.
·By Channel3
Add product search to your AI agent with the Channel3 MCP
The Channel3 MCP gives your AI agents real-time access to tens of millions of products. Get started in under a minute.
·By Channel3
For Brands
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I Tested Whether AI Can Actually Sell Your Products. Mostly, It Can't.
I shopped the way my generation does, by asking AI. It got products wrong, dead, and missing. Here's why your brand keeps losing the sale, and how to fix it.
·By Shrivathsan Sakthisundaram
AI Shopping Visibility: How to Track When ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity Recommend Your Products
See when AI assistants recommend your products, find the data gaps that keep you out of answers, and fix them — a guide to tracking AI shopping visibility.
·By Channel3
AI shopping and product discovery: what's changing
How AI is changing the way people discover products. From conversational search to agentic shopping and why product data matters.
·By Channel3
Company News
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How Channel3 reduced AI cost per product by 10× with Sail Research
Channel3 moved latency-tolerant stages of its product graph pipeline to asynchronous inference on Sail, cutting AI cost per product by 10×, delivering results in 8.5 minutes at p95, and keeping its customer-facing API response time under half a second.
·By Channel3
Channel3 recognized in the Awin Power 100
Channel3 named to the Awin Power 100 after competition from over one million partners—commended for value and innovation among the world’s most innovative affiliate partners.
·By Alexander Schiff
Channel3 raises $6M to build a database of every product on the internet
Humans shop on Google; AIs shop on Channel3. We're excited to announce our $6M seed round led by Matrix Partners.
·By Alexander Schiff