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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."
Google Checkout is Google's new dating service. They let you check-out other singles in your area.
Perhaps they can make a paypal that actually doesn't suck. After all Google isn't supposed to be evil.
The janitor at Google bought a new mop. Someone post it to the slashdot frontpage.
...and tell this blogger that googlewildspeculation.com is still available.
I only mod funny =D
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.
Gee, would you want your bank account directly accessable by a company with the security and privacy record of Microsoft?
If they acquired PayPal, they would convert it over ot MS servers, just like they did Hotmail.