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Google announces 0% on credit card processing

June 27, 2007

In a bid to gain a foothold in ecommerce credit card processing Google has announced that it will charge 0% on credit card transactions until the end of 2007. Google's main competitors in this area are WorldPay and PayPal. If an ecommerce website utilises "Google Checkout" then its pay per click adverts will bear the logo shown in the image.

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New Google "Street View" feature

June 27, 2007

Check out the new feature on Google Maps that is available in America by clicking here.

In the top right corner you can click on “Street View”.

Google have sent around a vehicle mounted camera and taken 360 photos taken at street level for entire cities! Note that you can “travel” down the street and pan around.

What gets rolled out in the USA normally finds its way to the UK so watch this space and be careful of the “Google Truck” if you are coming out of somewhere you shouldn’t be…

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