Google's young online payment service, Checkout, is one of the few Google products to live up to the hype in some time. As of Cyber Monday 2006, Checkout halved PayPal's market share lead.
aggressively promoted by the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. Already, that is paying off. Hitwise's LeeAnn The bulk of those visits came from ToysRus, offering $10 off $30 purchases if customers used Checkout. Google has similar scathing review of the product on his blog. The biggest issue addressed was privacy. Google's usual give-cool-stuff-in-exchange-for-user-information policy is not only opt-out, but is also obfuscated by three different privacy policies. Coping with that knowledge, Battelle used a test credit card to make a purchase. Checkout took his credit card information, but didn't make the sale. Writes Battelle: So I'm starting over. No, wait, this has been way too much of a trial. I'll get back to it later. Or, I'll just go to Amazon. Sorry Google, but mark this one in your metadata as "abandoned cart." Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark murdok:Google Checks Out PayPal's Market Lead
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