Google Checkout launches
June 29th, 2006Purchasing online is now as fast as searching for the items themselves, with Google’s brand new payment service that rolled out today. Essentially, this means buyers no longer need to keep typing billing, shipping, and credit card information each time they purchase online. Google Checkout can be a Paypal killer, since Ebay’s popular internet payment system is not one of the options you can use with your Google Checkout account. This service is also more global than Paypal for sure in terms of the countries it supports might support online shopping in more countries than even Paypal eventually, but is restricted to US stores at present - that internet purchasing has yet to catch on in most of those countries is a different story.
The biggest advantage for Google (and sellers) though, is the seamless integration of Checkout with Adwords, Google’s search advertising program, allowing online stores to attract new customers more easily, increase sales and process them for free. Some of the bigger stores that have already integrated Google Checkout are Jockey, Starbucks Store, Levi’s, Dockers, Buy.com, Timberland, Zales, amongst others.
Basically, Google has made it easier for me to part with my money.
