launch: Google Checkout
Posted on | June 29, 2006 | 3 Comments
as TechCrunch reported earlier today, Google launched its b2c payment-service Google Checkout. Checkout is an intermediary layer between buyers and sellers similar to PayPal, allowing buyers to do payments to a single trusted entity (=Google) while trading with any number of sellers. the latter use mediating services obviously to lower the barriere for potential customers in doing e-commerce. since Google currently is probably the nets best-known brand, I can imagine that Checkout will drive people into webshops which have been skeptical on online-shopping until now.
read Dave Winer’s post about Checkout for a very different opinion – he basically states that Google turned evil some time ago and doesn’t earn the trust needed for this sort of payment-service. he may be right, but public trust isn’t necessarily affected by the tech-elite’s opinion…
update: another interesting article on Google Checkout can be found at the commerce360-blog.
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June 29th, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
Interesting article by Dave Winer. I tend to agree with him about Google — they lost my trust a while ago. However, while I won’t be going out of my way to use Google Checkout, I won’t go out of my way to avoid it either.
June 30th, 2006 @ 12:15 am
I’m feeling similar towards google (I guess that’s really common sense these days). however, I think that the majority of users don’t even bother thinking about such issues (if so, why would they trust paypal/ebay? they just do because of the brands impact!). and since I consider google even better known among users, I guess they have good chances in this market.
thx for your comment!
July 4th, 2006 @ 9:48 am
i think it like 2checkout.
Best regards
John
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