Managing the Worlds (Financial) Information
Great post by John Battelle about unconfirmed rumors that Google will offer something similar to eBay’s PayPal. Check it out: Google to Offer Payment Service
The first reaction would be “hä? what does that have to do with search?”… but then you notice, they are not about search. Never have been. Their mission “ _is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful_ ”. And boy is my buying habits a big part of that. It might be a bit scary though knowing that Google is known to not really share what they do with all the information. They already know what I search for, where I go on the Net (at least where they have AdSense), how long I stay there (AdSense), what I am most interested in (click throughs on ads and organic results), and soon maybe what I buy or sell.