What’s the difference between Google checkout and GBuy? Are they different or one and the same?

Alex T: What’s the difference between Google checkout and GBuy? Are they different or one and the same?
If GBuy (apparently a Google service) is something different from Google checkout, where can I find that service? Is it better than Paypal?

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Answer by tvjames
Alex –

According to this article
https://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064688/Google-Launches-Checkout-not-the-Rumored-GBuy
GBuy and Google Checkout are not the same thing.

Apparently “Gbuy” hasn’t actually surfaced yet, though I imagine they’re working on it.

Being Google, they’d probably look closely at PayPal to figure out what they’re doing well (and what they’re doing poorly) and come out with a product with a stronger feature set.

And then eBay would ban people from using it on their service to protect PayPal.

At least that’s my guess.

Hope this is helpful,
James