--- title: AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s... description: A study by AI commerce company Recomaze tested 9,720 ecommerce stores with 58,320 purchase-intent queries through Google Gemini. Results show 60% of stores... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-choosing-which-online-stores-you-see-and-it-s-ignoring-most-of-them-ayucnsvvp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s ignoring most of them | daily.dev og:description: A study by AI commerce company Recomaze tested 9,720 ecommerce stores with 58,320 purchase-intent queries through Google Gemini. Results show 60% of stores... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-is-choosing-which-online-stores-you-see-and-it-s-ignoring-most-of-them-ayucnsvvp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aYUcNSVvP.png og:image:alt: AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s ignoring most of them og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s ignoring most of them **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A study by AI commerce company Recomaze tested 9,720 ecommerce stores with 58,320 purchase-intent queries through Google Gemini. Results show 60% of stores were never recommended, and when recommendations did occur, they spread across 50,287 distinct brands rather than concentrating among giants. Category matters significantly — visually-driven categories like home/living (74% invisible) and apparel (67% invisible) fared worst, while food and beverage performed best. The key finding: AI recommends stores whose product data it can actually parse and understand, not necessarily the largest retailers. This signals a shift from traditional SEO to 'AI visibility' as the new battleground for ecommerce discovery. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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