Start payment service "Google Checkout", see the commentary movie

If you pre-register information necessary for settlement such as credit cards in advance, "Google CheckoutShopping at the site that corresponds to "It makes it so easy to shop. It is something like "PayPal" that was said before, but it is slightly different.

Because it is hard to understand this only, let's see the commentary movie of "Google Checkout" published on Google Video. It is obvious what you can do.
Google Checkout Video Tour - Google Video (1 min 52 sec)

Unlike PayPal, you do not need to expose your email address as Uri, so it's hard to catch up with spam mails and online fraud e-mails. This may be important.

You can also use it to purchase paid movies on Google Video.

Currently, only the United States can be used, but it will also correspond to each language version. Of course Japan as well. Corresponding credit cards cover mostly famous places such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express.

One shopping fee is $ 0.2 or 2% of sales price whichever is lower. However, if you use Google's advertising service "Google Adwords", it will be free up to 10 times the advertisement fee. In short, it can cooperate with "Google Adwords".

Details are as follows.

Google Checkout Opens for Business
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/checkout.html