Google Moving into eBay Territory?

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

An entry yesterday on the Google Base Blog reveals plans to allow people to buy and sell items on Google Base using their Google Accounts. By the way, apparently signing up for a Google Account doesn’t give you Gmail, but the reverse seems to be the case. I never signed up for a Google Account but I seem to have one, and it uses the password from my Gmail account.

For buyers, this feature will provide a convenient and secure way to purchase Google Base items by credit card. For sellers, this feature integrates transaction processing with Google Base item management.

We’re starting with a very small number of sellers and we expect to include more over the next several months. If you’re a seller and you’re interested in getting an announcement when this feature is generally available, let us know. And if you want to know how this functionality relates to Google’s broader work in payments, read this update. We hope this feature will make it even easier for people to use Google Base to post and distribute a wide range of content, whether information for sharing or goods for sale. Source: Google Base Blog

We Say: There was speculation about Google both moving into CraigsList and eBay territory with Google Base, and it looks like it’s started. I haven’t really used Google Base much and some searches today (so that I can see what’s out there) didn’t find anything that looks like it’s linked into this service yet, but I’ll search more later.