Herewith the story of my attempts to buy a Dora the Explorer Mr. Face Plush Backpack from ToysRUs using Google Checkout. In short, Google now has my credit card number. (It’s one I use for testing, however). It feels kind of odd, to be honest. It seems Google is obviating the merchant entirely vis the ongoing data relationship with the buyer

Funny how “Don’t be evil” includes such things as censoring content in China and attacking people for doing the exact same thing as Google is doing (reusing freely given content). I have to say that while I still use google every day, I no longer consider them to be a “good corporation.” Now I just think that statement is an oxymoron.