Google Checkout and Google Adwords Tag Team Action

July 1, 2006 | By Gobala Krishnan |

Google Checkout is now available. It sounds much better than “Google Gbuy” as the media called it recently.

https://checkout.google.com/

According to Google, their new service called Google Checkout serves these purposes:

Stop creating multiple accounts and passwords. With Google Checkout™ you can quickly and easily buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place.
Shop with confidence. Our fraud protection policy covers you against unauthorized purchases made through Google Checkout, and we don’t share your purchase history or full credit card number with sellers.
Control commercial spam. You can keep your email address confidential, and easily turn off unwanted emails from stores where you use Google Checkout.

The first thing I found out when I signed-in to may account: Google Checkout is for US residents only.

What a shame. In fact, your address must be in the United States if you’re buying online. No other shipping addresses accepted.

For those in the United States, you can now add a little green shopping cart icon to your Adword ads which notified buyers that accept payment via Google Checkout.

Here’s what others are saying about Google Checkout:

On ZDNet: “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.”

On GoogleBlog: “..our immediate priority is to help more online stores join Jockey, Starbucks Store, Levi’s, Dockers, Buy.com, Timberland, Zales, and others to offer Checkout on their sites. To keep website integration simple, we’ve built a range of integration alternatives such as cut and paste buy buttons, pre-integrated ecommerce partner offerings, and an API that supports more advanced integration.”