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Google Inc. yesterday unveiled its long-anticipated service for helping consumers make purchases online, setting up a potential rival to eBay Inc.’s popular PayPal system.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google Romanceâ„¢, a new product that offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of their evening………..More At…..

We’ve heard the rumors about Google’s up and coming rival to PayPal, GBuy, and many people have been eagerly awaiting it to move into an open beta. It may be almost here, with Google possibly
this week.
GBuy will be unique from other payment services in that it will be integrated as part of a search, so [...]

There seems to be a growing number of webmasters who run Digital Point’s Coop on their site seeing heavy penalities placed on their sites’ SERPs in Google. Is it a coincindence, related to recent Google heaves or is it a definite Coop based penalty? The waters seem muddy at present (come back Matt…) and many [...]

Google’s dominance in search, coupled with its software-related forays, may drive Microsoft to acquire Yahoo or eBay to become the top internet revenue earner, writes MediaPost, citing a report by Merrill Lynch analysts. The Microsoft-Yahoo combination would immediately challenge Google in search, with search traffic roughly evenly split between Google and a merged Yahoo/MSN, according [...]

Spanish firm FON began a push this week to create a global wireless Internet community made up of people that could earn cash by turning home or business Internet connections into “hot spots.”
FON said on Monday it would practically give away one million Internet routers that would let hot spot owners share in small daily [...]

Today Google is performing “maintenance” to Writely that will be finished sometime this afternoon.  All your documents remain read-only during this period — which got me thinking.
They obviously didn’t take down their servers to do hardware or OS upgrades, otherwise nothing would be available — it has to be related to moving data.  The reason [...]

NEARLY five million users have visited “Geoportail,” the French answer to Google Earth, in the first day of the site’s operation, the portal’s developers say.
The flood of traffic to the site, which offers offering high-resolution aerial imagery of France, has meant only about one in five has been able to connect to Geoportail (www.geoportail.fr), developed [...]

Google is offering Google Video users the ability to watch an ad instead of paying for some premium content, the company said on Thursday.
Google is running a pilot programme to test ad-supported videos for premium content on Google Video………More At…….

Google will launch a public test to show display and video ads on Google Video, another step in the search giant’s slow exploration of graphical ads on its own services, according to sources familiar with the plans.
Possibly as early as Thursday or Friday, Google plans to announce it will stream for free some premium videos [...]

Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a multi-year agreement with Google Inc. to distribute Google’s Web search software with various Adobe products.

Google researchers have developed technology that lets computers listen to TVs. The idea is to give PCs the ability to understand what is being viewed on a nearby TV so those watching television can be provided with related content, automatically, on their monitors.

Search engine giant Google is nearing completion of a new data center on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon. But trying to get information about the project is almost as difficult as finding Bigfoot.

A Trojan horse has been discovered in Google Pages, a Web site hosting service offered by the search giant.

Google’s hugely successful search advertising product, AdWords, is borrowing a buying tactic from traditional media.