'Google Purchases' makes appearance
Adding further credence to rumors that Google is planning to launch its own PayPal-like online payments service, industry watchers this week uncovered a new page on the search giant’s site called "Google Purchases." In addition, Google updated its robots.txt file to tell Web crawlers to exclude the directories /gwt and /purchases.
In June, speculation abound that Google was on the cusp of launching a service called Google Wallet. On April 13, Google registered a new entity in California called Google Payment Corp, further fueling the rumor mill.
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