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Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cha-ching dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a ZDNet post about another possible product in the grand Google vision. The product, Google Checkout, may be an attempt to go after PayPal. From the article: "Since we know Google is behind its registration, what is Google Checkout going to be? I think it will be a shopping cart system to help websites accept payment for their items online. The money site owners make will be deposited into a holding account at Google -- just like AdSense works. Isn't this starting to sound a lot like PayPal? Who knows, they could even offer a Google branded Mastercard "debit card" like PayPal's ATM/Debit Card -- after all, the domain googlemastercard.com is registered to Google too."

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  1. You midunderstand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google Checkout is Google's new dating service. They let you check-out other singles in your area.

  2. This Just In by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The janitor at Google bought a new mop. Someone post it to the slashdot frontpage.

    1. Re:This Just In by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 3, Funny

      All you need to know is that it wasn't an evil mop, and that the domain googlemops.com has not yet been registered.

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      It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
  3. Google Checkout? by Freaky+Spook · · Score: 3, Funny

    Im sure it can't compete with the One-Click checkout :)

  4. Somebody call ZDNet... by mattmacf · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and tell this blogger that googlewildspeculation.com is still available.

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    I only mod funny =D
  5. A Whole New Meaning by Alethes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Adds a whole new meaning to "I'm Feeling Lucky" now, doesn't it?

    1. Re:A Whole New Meaning by binkzz · · Score: 4, Funny

      You call yours Lucky?

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      'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
    2. Re:A Whole New Meaning by 70Bang · · Score: 3, Funny



      Or, as a guy in college said when a girl walked by, "I wouldn't kick that girl out of bed for eating crackers....would I, 'Crackers'?" (patting his crotch at the appropriate time.

      Making such a mistake so early in his college career (first week of school) and earning the nickname of Crackers. When addressed as such, the ladies wanted to know the derivation and he always had to tap dance around it.

      As a reasonably small (1'900 students), midwestern, non-denominational Christian university, there were a lot of sensitive ears and everyone knew everyone else. Should he have responded honestly to the wrong person, he might have found his social life a bit empty for some time.

      (But it was still fun to watch him deal with the name across a couple of years)