Google Checkout conceals shoppers’ credit card numbers and keeps their e-mail addresses confidential.
Participating merchant Web sites feature a button that shoppers can click to use Google Checkout.
Google Checkout lets users keep track of their purchases.
Merchants using Google Checkout will have green shopping-cart icons on ads they place on Google’s search site.
Merchants can use Google Checkout as an alternative to other checkout processing systems.
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
