{"id":282,"date":"2006-06-30T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/google-checkout\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T19:57:04","slug":"google-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/google-checkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Google\" title=\"Google\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/logos\/Logo_25wht.gif\" \/>On Thursday, Google released their long-rumored <a href=\"http:\/\/checkout.google.com\">Checkout service<\/a>. This new service allows shoppers with a Google Checkout account to pay for merchandise at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/buy\/m.html\">long list of retailers<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t quite the PayPal killer (at least at this time) that it was rumored to be. It&#8217;s more of a shopping cart system that can be added to your merchant site so you don&#8217;t have to directly deal with credit card processing. It&#8217;s probably most similar to what Amazon does now when a merchant sells their merchandise through them. A buy has the confidence that the business is legit because Amazon is behind it, and they don&#8217;t need to register a login at 100 different places since their one and only Google account has all the credit card information built right in. So in that sense, as a buyer, I think this is a good thing. Hopefully they eventually move this service into the PayPal online wallet\/bank account type arena as well. Lord knows PayPal needs the competition, since they&#8217;re really one of the only games in town when it comes to buying items in online auctions. Like every new Google venture, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see where this one goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Google released their long-rumored Checkout service. This new service allows shoppers with a Google Checkout account to pay for merchandise at a long list of retailers. This isn&#8217;t quite the PayPal killer (at least at this time) that it was rumored to be. It&#8217;s more of a shopping cart system that can be&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/google-checkout\/\" title=\"Read Google Checkout\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}