CNET has an interview with PayPal Chief Technology Officer Scott Thompson. It’s mostly about PayPal’s technology and anti-phishing tactics, but does have one question on Google Checkout.
Can you comment on the competition you might be seeing from Google Checkout? Have you seen any loss of market share or revenue? Thompson: …as it relates to Google Checkout, where as you would expect we are very aware of what they are doing,
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On Monday, March 26th, I will present a 75 minutes tutorial about Google APIs: Search, Advertising and Commerce at SPA 2007 in Cambridge, UK. I will talk about many APIs: AJAX Search, Maps, Google Data, AdWords, Checkout and Google Web Toolkit, and show some cool demos of what you can do with them. I’ll post the slides on this blog after the conference.
Happy Valentines Day everyone! Google has been celebrating Valentines Day this year by giving a couple of its services (Gmail and Webmaster Central) a little something extra.
As for Gmail, users can now sign up for the service without being invited — even though this was falsely reported about a week ago, this time it's [...]
Our very own Martin Omander can be found guest starring over at the O’Reilly Windows DevCenter. Martin has written a detailed and enjoyable tutorial on implementing a .NET application using the Google Checkout API. Insightful reading for Google Checkout users, even those that work on a different platform or in a different programming language. Read the full article at: Build a .NET App for Google Checkout.
Google had an exciting year in 2006 — stealing headlines with almost everything they did, even if the news wasn't particularly exciting. Many of the more important things that happened are summarized by Google Operating System in an article titled "Google 2006 in 12 Pictures".
Will the excitement carry forward in 2007? Like most of you, [...]
The NYT takes a look at Google efforts to take market share away from eBay’s PayPal. The two are in a battle for the right to process credit card payments of companies looking for an alternative to merchant accounts.
What’s interesting is that PayPal doesn’t appear to be concerned with Google’s onslaught
At least half of Google's Checkout service has been opened up to countries other than the United States. Now, regardless of where you live, you can purchase items with Google Checkout — unfortunately, finding a store that will ship internationally is quite challenging.
One place that is accepting money from other countries already is Google's [...]
Threadwatch reports on a WebmasterWorld post by Marcia that Google Checkout currently is not stringing along the variables in the URLs necessary for affiliates to get paid their commissions after a recent upgrade to Google Checkout. It appears that this was not by design, and simply an oversight, which should be fixed sooner than later.
Threadwatch reports on a WebmasterWorld post by Marcia that Google Checkout currently is not stringing along the variables in the URLs necessary for affiliates to get paid their commissions after a recent upgrade to Google Checkout. It appears that this was not by design, and simply an oversight, which should be fixed sooner than later.
I’m finally in Chicago and don’t have a whole lot of time for blogging - which will give me the shakes by the end of the day!
Anyway, here’s what caught my attention today.
Yahoo announces a major reorganization so that it can become more customer focused. Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig and Yahoo Media Group chief Lloyd Braunare among those leaving.
Search Engine Land has links to all the SES Chicago coverage.
Google drives another nail in PayPal’s coffin with the announcement that they will process payments for free until the end of 2007!!
ValueClick decides it too needs to get in on in-stream video advertising.
Microsoft releases its own version of book search.
Avenue A | Razorfish has released a study looking at how analytics can help search marketers.
Neil Patel is also pissed that Elinor Mills took his comments about Digg and used them for evil.
Danny Sullivan has announced the launch of Search Marketing Now (for webcasts) and will also have a new conference - Search Marketing Expo - in Seattle this June
At risk of sounding like a really bad furniture commercial on the radio, do not pay till 2008 for all Google Checkout transactions. I had to do a double take when I read an article on the official Google Checkout blog saying their free transaction promotion (ending December 31, 2006) has been extended a whole [...]
Google has announced new merchants using Google Checkout - Toys “R” Us, Babies “R” Us, Golfsmith, Linens ‘n Things among others - but more importantly, they’ve announced the addition of eight international charities.
Google will add $10 to every $30+ donation to any of the eight charities.
A nice gesture and great PR for Google Checkout.
Pilgrim Partners: GoToMeeting - Easy online meetings - Free Trial + $10 Off!
ClickZ has a good summary of two new studies - from Performics and Google Checkout - that show the web will be a big part of consumers holiday shopping this year.
58 percent of adults surveyed plan do conduct online research during this years’ holiday season
40 percent of employed U.S. adults say they’ll be doing at least some of their online holiday shopping from work this year
Pilgrim Partners: Text Link Brokers - Buy text links and increase your site’s traffic!
Google has deep pockets, and is certainly not afraid to use its war-chest of cash to take on PayPal. Hitwise reports Google Checkout’s $10 off $30 promotion (and the just announced $20 off $50) is helping the company to buy its way into the online payment processing market.
Its market share of visits was up 30% in the past four weeks (week ending 11/18/06 vs
