Google's PayPal-Rival GBuy Looks Set To Launch This Week
We’ve had rumors that Google would launch its own PayPal-like payment system
this week. Widely reported as GBuy, the Wall Street Journal has a few further
details of what looks to be coming any day now.
Google Gets
Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option (paid sub. required) covers
how GBuy might give rebates back to those making purchases; how GBuy’s 2.2
commission on sales would be higher than PayPal’s 1.9 percent rate, but also how
AdWords advertisers might get commission eliminated or be given a discount.
Those advertisers also might get special icons next to their ads, to show they
accept GBuy payments.
Google GBuy Launch Later This Month To Challenge PayPal? from us last week
provides a timeline of how we’ve gotten to the existing and live Google Payments
system on Google Base to the expected launch of this new system for transactions
that happen outside Google’s own properties.
Earlier this month, Eric Schmidt
reiterated
that the new system he said would be coming from Google was "not like PayPal at
all." We’ll see, but it sure feels that way.
Meanwhile, Valleywag
notes that Google is hosting a free
talk on micropayments this
Thursday. It features two micropayment companies but also sees like nice timing
for Google to talk about its own less-than-micro payment system
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