robsnell - 10:15 am on Jun 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Wow. I've already gotten 2 orders! A few random things I've noticed so far:

• The Google Checkout cart is pretty smart. As soon as you start typing in those digits, GC knows what type of card you're using and grays out the other card types...

• Google Checkout won't let you (a shopper) order from yourself (a merchant). If you're like me, you probably have more Google Accounts and Yahoo! IDs than you have fingers and toes.

• The more I think about the Shopper Privacy protection angle, the more I like it. I mean, how many merchants have my email address and credit card info by this point? I've been shopping online for 10 years or more now.

• I don't think Google isn't trying to wipe out those thousands of shopping cart companies. I think Google is thinking bigger than that. If GC can integrate with EVERY shopping cart, it's just one more way to pay (like PayPal).

  As long as sales processed through our Yahoo! Store and Yahoo! Small Business got their REV-SHARE (ouch!), Y! didn't care WHO we used for payment processing (PayPal) whether or not the Merchant Bank had a competing cart/checkout.