Can you maintain separate catalogs for your Retail Search and your Recommendations AI?

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I want to set up Google Retail Search so it returns the following:

  • Store locations
  • Products
  • Site pages

But I want the Recommendations AI to only return Products.

So far I haven’t been able to find confirmation that this is feasible. Does anyone know if it’s possible to have a different set of return values for Google Retail Search than for Recommendations AI?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @gregoc43 ,

We appreciate your inquiry, this idea is indeed helpful when someone wants to utilize Recommendations AI to produce a more personalized response to an individual customer and then use Retail API to return a general recommendation to all the customers.

Although this topic is a bit broad and there is no specific guide to this, you can review the following documentation to kick start your resolution.

Theoretically you can take advantage of the branches in your Retail API catalog, adding different products and data to each branch at the same time creating different models for each branch. You can then use the right model to produce the desired recommendations or search results.

Hope this helps.