Googlified

Google launched Google Checkout Trends today. Similar to Google Trends, it’s a tool that “aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants” and show the charts of the revenues of the products you enter. You can filter the chart by time and price of the items.

It’s possible to get the data of the charts in CSV format and use in your (online) applications, but I won’t explain the details here (really obvious if you are already developing your own application).

[via Official Google Checkout Blog]

Google today announced that Google Checkout users can use their cellphone to purchase items from any WAP-enabled Checkout merchants in both U.S. and U.K.

It would be nice if Google label which of these stores are WAP-enabled…

Starting earlier today, when you search “Google Checkout” on Google, the first result is titled “use google checkout on hibidder com free“. A bit weird, don’t you think? (from the normal “Google Checkout”) Well, this is where Danny Sullivan comes in and explains to you what’s going on…

Also, Ionut spotted some really random suggestion errors on Google Blog Search…

related post: Google’s Broke

Google Checkout finally arrives to the United Kingdom today, the Official Google Blog announced.

We’re excited to tell you that as of this morning the speed, security, and convenience of Google Checkout is available to online shops and shoppers in the United Kingdom. Here’s Google Checkout UK.

Merchants will also receive free credit and debit card processing for all of their Checkout sales and buyers will get £10 off for all orders over £30 in the Google Checkout UK like Google has been doing in the U.S. version of Google Checkout.

Google today added Checkout to the AdSense referral program, in addition of AdSense, AdWords, Firefox and Google Packs. The Inside AdSense Blog explains how the the new referral button works:

1. You place the Checkout referral button on your site.
2. Someone clicks on the button, signs up as a buyer with Google Checkout using a valid U.S. credit card, and completes a purchase of at least $10 before shipping and tax through Checkout within 90 days. (The current $10 minimum purchase corresponds to our existing $10 promotion for new buyers, so this amount may change in the future.)
3. You earn $1.

You can use one of the 9 preset buttons from AdSense, one of them is a text link and the rest are image buttons in different formats. I think you can use your own text for the text link, but I am not really sure though.

UPDATE: Apparently you can’t… [thanks Ionut!]

Google has added a new blog to their Developer Blog collection - Google Checkout API Blog. They will mainly cover Checkout API stuff such as new features, bug fixes, and more… Like many other new Google blogs, the Google Checkout API Blog allows you to comment on the posts, but will be moderated. Go ahead and check it out. :)