Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal?

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."

Comments

*sigh* more speculation

[strider44]

The problem with the article is that it's basing an awful lot on just a domain name. I could think of many other things it *could* be, like a shopping store, an auction site a la ebay, and more. It could also be a simple ecommerce software site, which I think is the most likely. My biggest counter to the argument for a paypal site is if this Google Checkout is a commercial venture like PayPal, why haven't they snabbed GoogleCheckout.com?

Keeping the dogs out of the internet ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Google's money spinning machine has just one huge flaw. You geeks know that. By design nobody can tell which of those clicks on ads are from real people and which ones are from dogs (and monkeys and bots).

They are not fighting PayPal. They want to charge customers not for delivering clicks but for delivering customers. If the clickers on the ads actually use their checkout service to buy then who cares if the clicker is a dog or a bot. It is a dog who has cash to spend.

A big list of upcoming services

[NanoServ]

Google registered a domain, so therefore they must be planning a service around it? Wow. Let's take a look at some other domains Google has registered...

Gbrowser.com - I wonder how that's doing.
Googleblows.com - Hm.. so much to speculate on.
Googledoodle.com - A drawing platform, maybe?
Googleporn.com - It's about time!

Here's my favorite: Googlemotherf**ker.com.

Google regularly buys domain names just so others won't. The fact that they bought googlecheckout.net might just mean they don't want someone else masquerading as a Google checkout service.

I know what it is

[kahrytan]

Garett Rogers has it all wrong.

Google maybe setting up a new and improved Froogle with Store Fronts similar to Yahoo Shopping.

"Google Checkout" could be used for stores in froogle to accept payments.

Re:Does anyone else have a sense that...

[Jafafa Hots]

"Does anyone else have a sense that the next 5 years are going to be really interesting?"

The next five years are always interesting.

Re:This could only be a good thing

[techno-vampire]

It's easy not to suck if you only look at the best case scenarios.

Very true. It's also hard not to suck if you only look at the worst cases, as that site listed above clearly does.