Google is introducing some updates to its product taxonomy on 15th September, to make it easier to find products in Google Shopping, so if your store submits products to Google Shopping you will need to make sure that your feed is updated. The updates are summarized here.

If you are using our Googlebasexml extension for Virtuemart, making these updates should be easy. Our extension includes category mappings from your Virtuemart categories to those in the Google product taxonomy, you will be able to do this simply by updating the mappings.

It is important to make sure that your product feed complies with the Google product feed specification, otherwise your products may be suspended. There is a useful article about Google Shopping and the product taxonomy in the Joomla community magazine here.