Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal? 219
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."
You midunderstand (Score:5, Funny)
This Just In (Score:5, Funny)
Google Checkout? (Score:3, Funny)
Somebody call ZDNet... (Score:5, Funny)
Google acting like... Google. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A big list of upcoming services (Score:2, Funny)
I thought we already had Google Images??
Of course they can (Score:1, Funny)
A Whole New Meaning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This Just In (Score:1, Funny)
Does it run Linux?
You knew it was coming.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A Whole New Meaning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lack of integration with ebay will kill it (Score:3, Funny)
Yup, no micropayments outside eBay, no other countries than USA, no other language than English.
Re:Lack of integration with ebay will kill it (Score:2, Funny)
And that's why Google will unveil gbay [gbay.com] next!
Re:This Just In (Score:4, Funny)
Suicide... (Score:3, Funny)
See the Fish! [youtube.com]
Re:Somebody call ZDNet... (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, just imagine it. Google has a site that's based entirely upon wild speculation. Anyone can post any sort of speculation, be it meaningful or not. And the speculation could be searched entirely. If by some chance the speculation came true, then Google news could automatically search through the speculations for the relevant information. And then they could have ranking links below the story. Saying something like "This story was predicted by ____ web sites", with a link to the Google Wild Speculation search. And they could have rankings of all people who write speculation for the Google Wild Speculation site. So in that way, you could find out if perhaps you were psychic, or were really good at predicting the future. Pyschics on TV would be out of jobs when it was found out that they had a 0.0001% speculation rate on Google Wild Speculation.
Meanwhile, Google would find all the real psychics, and would hire them up. Then Google would have psychics to control our minds.
Yeah, that would be awesome. I should go code that right now.
Re:GoogleWiki (Score:2, Funny)
Who are you? (Score:2, Funny)
Why are you posting anonymously, BadAnalogyGuy?
Re:A Whole New Meaning (Score:4, Funny)
Or, as a guy in college said when a girl walked by, "I wouldn't kick that girl out of bed for eating crackers....would I, 'Crackers'?" (patting his crotch at the appropriate time.
Making such a mistake so early in his college career (first week of school) and earning the nickname of Crackers. When addressed as such, the ladies wanted to know the derivation and he always had to tap dance around it.
As a reasonably small (1'900 students), midwestern, non-denominational Christian university, there were a lot of sensitive ears and everyone knew everyone else. Should he have responded honestly to the wrong person, he might have found his social life a bit empty for some time.
(But it was still fun to watch him deal with the name across a couple of years)