Top Ten Google Checkout Sites
Hitwise ran another story on Google Checkout market share, and they included the top 10 sites sending traffic to Checkout. Basically, this list contains the most important stores of Checkout traffic, so it’s worth noting, especially if one of these sites drop Google in the future:
You really have to discount Google Base, since it isn’t going away anytime, and eBay, since they aren’t an official Checkout partner (and how they send any referal traffic is beyond me), but we have here eight stores that are important to Checkout, and one (Toys ‘R’ Us) that is of the utmost importance.
Warning: mass commenting about to begin! (I’m so glad IE is no longer crashing, or am I jinxing it now?)
I’ll try to keep it all somewhat compact.
You should consider turning off ClearType for screen shots. Just like Aero Glass, it’s not helpful for when you want to make a screenshot.
About Google Checkout: I’d love to use it, but I don’t have a credit card. I’d like to transfer money to my Checkout account, and then pay from the balance later on, preferably without the seller ever seeing my e-mail address; PayPal was what caused me to receive spam on Gmail in the first place, I’m fairly certain about that. I want features!
Comment by Tim | February 9, 2007
Ignore/delete this.
Capturing network traffic to check for coComment bugs.
Comment by Tim | February 9, 2007
Just checked to see whether the comment content was actually submitted at all.
Apparently, the text was submitted at least twice. One time to coComment, and once to your WordPress. However, the comments still don’t show up; can you confirm registered users still bypass moderation?
Comment by Tim | February 9, 2007
Yeah, that’s not a ClearType thing, that’s their awful image quality. Garbage comes in, garbage goes out, unless I redo the table myself in more decent software.
Yeah, Google needs to find a way to work without a credit card. I remember how relieved I was when I got my first card, since things were so hard until then.
I talked with a guy at Microsoft last night, and we determined it was the CoComment plugin causing the IE hangups. I removed it for now, till I find out what that happened.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | February 9, 2007
Actually, I’m sorry, but I’m still convinced that it’s ClearType at work - it just happens not to be your mistake, but theirs. ClearType is horrible, especially with JPGs - funny thing though, it’s actually a .PNG (which I like).
Thanks for talking to the IE guy… I like the way Microsoft handles support. The official ways to get support might suck big time, but you always have 100 blogs to fall back to (because you can comment on them, unlike some other company’s blogs… *cough Google cough*.
Matt Cutts’ blog is nice, but I still don’t like it when mail addresses are required just to comment on a blog, plus, it’s not an “official” blog like the IEBlog, and his commenting guidelines have become more strict, iirc. I like going offtopic sometimes
By the way, any clue what changed since you removed coComment? I can see it’s enabled again, and I’m not seeing any crashes here.
Comment by Tim | February 10, 2007