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Check out Google Checkout
Created: 06/29/2006
Video description: CNET's Rafe Needleman looks at Google's Checkout service, which launched Thursday. This online-shopping application can already be used to purchase merchandise at Buy.com, plus the Web sites of retail brands such as Levi Strauss, Starbucks, Fossil and Timberland.

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