Updates to 'manufacturer' field in Google Feeds
Sep 13, 2011
Google has deprecated the 'manufacturer' attribute. If it is submitted in the feed, it is ignored without any warnings or errors. Therefore, we have dropped the field from all Google feeds (Advanced and Basic) where it was set to the same value as 'brand'. If it was set different from 'brand', then we renamed it to 'c:manufacturer:string', so that Google may accept the values as a custom attribute. This change is automatic and no action needs to be taken on your part.
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