Google seems to be doing a lot of things right now. How do they do it ? Well, one is the “20 percent time” rule in which they're free to pursue projects they're passionate about. This freedom has already produced Google News, Google Suggest, AdSense for Content, and Orkut – products which might otherwise have taken an entire start-up to launch. Secondly, they have a lot of R&D Centres around the world and one of it is in India that help launch the Google Finance Portal.
That's brings us back to the question of whether their newest product (Google Checkout) is a good thing ? A report that came out from the Gartner research firm does not think so. They contemplate that Google Checkout goes well beyond Google's stated mission of indexing all of the world's information. In other words, Google is doing something out of their main scope of expertise and basically is just trying to have other streams of income. That augurs well if they can manage financial transactions properly. Just look at the mess Paypal has been having over the past few years.
Well, I wish Google all the best in this new payment system. I might try it out soon.
Is Google Checkout Good for Google's Business ? source
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