Benjamin Ling is product lead for Google Checkout and spoke with AuctionBytes this week about the new service from Google and whether it's appropriate for online-auction sellers.
Google Checkout launched late last month after a year of rumors and speculation about what a Google payment service might look like, and whether it might compete with eBay's PayPal service. Ling said Google Checkout (GC) is not a competitor to PayPal because GC is all about a seamless checkout experience, not a payment service. "PayPal is a form of payment in the checkout process, what we're trying to optimize is the overall checkout process so that it's very seamless and very quick." Google is not a money transmission service, and there's no stored value in the system, he said.
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