Digital Micro-Markets:
Donna Bogatin writes a scathing editorial on Google CheckOut. I’ve not personally used CheckOut myself, so I can’t speak to many of the issues that she raises, but the situation certainly needs to be watched.

Rob Hof suggests that it’s too early for the criticism eBay is receiving over Google Checkout. He raises some very valid points. We’ll wait and see.

MarketingVOX:
As expected, eBay has disallowed Google Checkout on eBay. Over the long run, this move could hurt eBay more than it hurts Google.

Digital Micro Markets:
Donna Bogatin clearly isn’t a fan of Google Checkout. She does everything but call for the antitrust inquisition to begin immediately.
Frankly, the payments space could use a good shaking up. And Google Checkout looks like the way to do it!
Thank you to John Battelle’s Searchblog for the link.

Inside AdWords:
The AdWords team chimes in on the Google Checkout announcement.
For every dollar spent on AdWords, a merchant will receive $10 of processing for free. Many merchants will find that extremely attractive.

GoogleBlog:
Today, Google is announcing Google Checkout, the combination of a digital wallet for consumers and a payment processing system for online merchants. The fees charged to merchants are lower than those they will generally receive from credit card processors.
While there’s nothing actually new here (digital wallet solutions were around at least as early as the […]

Search Engine Watch
Ouch. Danny Sullivan unloads with both barrels on what he doesn’t like about Google. As it happens, there’s not much in there that I can disagree with.
Google, we’re only saying these things because we love ya!

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.