TechCrunch
Ok, perhaps it just seems like this blog is about nothing but Google Payments of late… In any case, Nik Cubrilovic has the best look at Google Payments that I’ve seen so far.

Burnham’s Beat
Bill reports that beta orders using GoogleBase and GoogleWallet show Google as the merchant of record. This is a substantial development with real legal implications. It suggests that Google plans to make a major play in the e-commerce space.

The Tech Beat
Business Week reports that Google is beta testing their payment system on GoogleBase. On a related note, Bill Burham predicts hard times ahead for eBay and PayPal.

John Battelle’s Searchblog
Google’s CFO states the obvious (that it’s harder to grow when you’re ginormous), and the market freaks out. Yes, GOOG may still be overvalued, but they will continue to grow at a respectable rate for the forseeable future.

Google Blog
Google makes a formal statement on payment systems. No real information, except that they are interested in payments.

Abakus
No, no matter what your SEO firm might be telling you, meta tags are not used in ranking calculations in the major search engines.
However, Abakus is reporting that Google is now using Meta Description as the text returned on the Search Engine Results Page. This is correct, but he’s not right that this has just [...]

BusinessWeek
eBay’s new advertising program is not intended to drive people to online auctions, but is rather designed for items with longer sales cycles, such as travel and jewelry. They’ve been testing the program on real estate for some time now.
The biggest risk eBay faces is confusing their audience with too many offerings. I think Yahoo [...]

ShoeMoney
So, no more advertising on trademarked terms in Yahoo. I wonder if they will go back and forth on this issue as Google has.

SEO Scoop
Some are speculating that Google Wallet, Big G’s long rumored payment system, will allow advertisers to purchase advertising on a Cost Per Action basis, where they only pay for a click if it results in a purchase through the Google Wallet.
SEO Scoop suggests that this could mean the end of Cost Per Click advertising, [...]

Google Enterprise Blog
The enterprise team has chimed in with details on the enterprise version of the Google desktop search product.