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I guess by partnering with Shopify they can let someone else worry about that, but likely they'll have a counterfeit problem if this gets any traction.
If it’s free to list, why not just make a special shopping filter on google to find stuff for sale. Amazon included.
I miss the day when I could google for products and find the best price quality. Amazon search shows more ads than search results and the world really needs a shopping google.
Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
A name, a destiny.
He has embraced the concept:
Free until they dominate the entire market
Or wipe out the low commission fee competition in the payment processor space. If the US had better anti-competitive enforcement I feel like this is akin to the Internet Explorer/Netscape/Microsoft case, in them using one monopoly (search) to take over another market (same hook too: "free"). Plus you know they're going to reward sites for using this in their search rankings (or just outright place them at the top).
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 204 times, shame on me. https://killedbygoogle.com/
Free until they dominate the entire market
Walmart and Target have been trying to chip away at Amazon's lead, and they're only getting buried deeper in the dust. Google doesn't exactly have a reputation for entering new markets and dominating them, either...
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 204 times, shame on me. https://killedbygoogle.com/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just glad there's someone to temper Amazon from world dominance... For now.
At first, me too. But amazon doesn't have a search monopoly, millions of android devices, google maps, or youtube to drive the sales. Neither do they have the huge amount of data google already have on people. Now there is a possibility that google fails because sales require a lot of IRL stuff they suck at. So maybe it will be a balanced game. But if they win, it's going to be a nightmare. Unrelated, but I'm also qu…
Don't forget that something like ~70% of their income comes from AWS. They may not be as visible as Google on the net but they are pretty much the largest provider of web services.