Google once more might have crossed the fine line between delivering the most neutral search results, and doing self-promotion in disfavor of such neutrality.
analysis by Danny Sullivan, is the display of a Google Checkout-specific link within the shopping onebox.
The shopping information in question is shown on top of some web results when you search for products like * Indeed, competitors like Yahoo are doing this stuff (and worse) all the time. But as Mike Arrington of TechCrunch *The usual caveats apply for the word "neutral."
Note that Google actually gives this service away for free in 2007 to further promote it, so Google commissions are temporarily disabled. Also note that I don't see this checkout link for the same search on German Google.
*As quoted before in the discussion on Google's now-removed , Google
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