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October 12, 2005 12:50 AM

Pre-announcing Google Wallet. A Pay-Pal competitor from the little search engine that could...
posted by jonson (44 comments total)

A Pay-Pal competitor from the little search engine that could... the Mother Brain.

or to put it less snarkily: am I the only one getting a little disconcerted by google's takeover over of... everything?
posted by shmegegge at 1:43 AM on October 12, 2005

Where are they handing out the RFID implants, again? Starbucks? Or was that Yahoo's secret master plan that I'm mis-remembering?

Though, Google doing auctions/craigslist is palatable in theory. Please don't be evil.Oh, shit - you're publicly owned now, aren't you?
posted by loquacious at 1:55 AM on October 12, 2005

(from yesterday's NY Times - opinion page).
posted by bap98189 at 1:59 AM on October 12, 2005

Think Froogle with links to vendors supporting Google Wallet...
posted by Rothko at 2:01 AM on October 12, 2005

A high profile Paypal that isn't Paypal? That would be a Very Good Thing.
posted by bwerdmuller at 2:28 AM on October 12, 2005

Pre-announcing Google Wallet.

I can barely wait for the FPP with the actual announcement
posted by biffa at 2:44 AM on October 12, 2005

Relax. There'll be at least three announcement posts.
posted by loquacious at 2:50 AM on October 12, 2005

Well I for one welcome our new Google over-

+++ NO CARRIER
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:53 AM on October 12, 2005

I'll take that as a "No, you're not the only one," then.
posted by shmegegge at 2:56 AM on October 12, 2005

To be horrendously negative about the whole thing, someone is going to take over everything, shmegegge. At least Google have a nice font.
posted by Swandive at 3:07 AM on October 12, 2005

google os
posted by bam at 3:35 AM on October 12, 2005

google office!
posted by slater at 3:50 AM on October 12, 2005

I eagerly await the announcement of Google Google so I search and keep up with all this crap they're pumping out.
posted by Stan Chin at 3:52 AM on October 12, 2005

While we're at it, more pre-release fun: google.org.
posted by gwint at 4:03 AM on October 12, 2005

I already knew this. The preannouncement was already announced in a previous preannouncement.
posted by sexymofo at 4:18 AM on October 12, 2005

The mind boggles googles.
posted by furtive at 4:18 AM on October 12, 2005

omg has anyone made the joke about google being skynet yet lols
posted by cmonkey at 4:19 AM on October 12, 2005

What is the google?

there, that's out of the way. Next.
posted by shmegegge at 4:42 AM on October 12, 2005

shmegegge - HTH

:)
posted by twine42 at 4:51 AM on October 12, 2005

Look, just fucking stop the posts about Google blowing its nose.
posted by bouncebounce at 4:52 AM on October 12, 2005

All corporations merge into OmniCorp Google.
posted by mortisimo at 4:55 AM on October 12, 2005

I would be more excited if they were going to announce Google Disaster Relief.
posted by srboisvert at 5:04 AM on October 12, 2005

Or Google we give up on world domination
posted by wheelieman at 6:09 AM on October 12, 2005

yetanotherfuckingtroll
posted by johnny novak at 6:10 AM on October 12, 2005

I'm just waiting for Metafilter's Apple announcement around 1 or so today.
posted by Rothko at 6:18 AM on October 12, 2005

Appoogle? Goople?
posted by loquacious at 6:29 AM on October 12, 2005

What's with the constant boring refrain about Google taking over the world? What a ridiculous failure of imagination. The real problem is that Google will spread itself too thin and start to produce crap.
posted by shivohum at 6:33 AM on October 12, 2005

At least there is no way that Google Payments could be worse than PayPal.
posted by cmonkey at 6:36 AM on October 12, 2005

MetaTalk
posted by grateful at 7:47 AM on October 12, 2005

I'd like to come out in favor of reusing Metatalk callouts, rather than re-hashing the same issues over and over and over....
posted by grateful at 7:48 AM on October 12, 2005

* Stands in line for hive-mind-sanctioned electro-gruel
posted by destro at 7:50 AM on October 12, 2005

previously on MetaFilter
posted by hattifattener at 8:29 AM on October 12, 2005

Waiting for Google beer.....
posted by Joeforking at 9:15 AM on October 12, 2005

all I want for Christmas is the ChiGoogle Cubs
posted by tsarfan at 9:34 AM on October 12, 2005

MetaFilter: hive-mind-sanctioned electro-gruel.
posted by S.C. at 9:35 AM on October 12, 2005

Google has maybe 3-4 decent hits:
1. Search
2. Maps
3. Email
4. News

The duds (or nothing to write home about category)

1. catalogs
2. froogle
3. answers
4. Talk

Yes I'm skipping the other ones (groups, blogger, sms, local, earth, etc)

Overall this Google hype seems over-done. Yes they're a neat company and yes they're trying new things rapidly, but in the grand scheme of things they probably don't know what the end goal is either.
posted by tboz at 9:50 AM on October 12, 2005

When does Chaum's patent run out again?
posted by sonofsamiam at 9:59 AM on October 12, 2005

Oh, wait. It expired in July, so I guess we'll be seeing some more digital payment options cropping up soon.
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:04 AM on October 12, 2005

It's already run out, somewhere this summer if I recall correctly.
posted by fvw at 10:09 AM on October 12, 2005

Google, it's people, they're eating people! Oh my gooood waahhahahahh. [/Charlton Heston]
posted by Eekacat at 10:39 AM on October 12, 2005

It's hysterical that they could actually put something like this on the open web with such an obvious url. It's not at all difficult to make a page generally unavailable except to selected users/clients even if for testing purposes you have to put it on a generally-available server. This is the kind of n00b mistake they should be incapable of; which makes you wonder if they meant it to be found.
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:53 PM on October 12, 2005

Yawn... Someone wake me up when Google dominates the pronography market.
posted by buck09 at 1:18 PM on October 12, 2005

tsarfan, sorry, it's gonna be the Google Angels (featuring Vladamir Google and the Google Monkey).
posted by wendell at 2:26 PM on October 12, 2005

pre-announcing... Pepsi Blue.
posted by horseblind at 3:33 PM on October 12, 2005