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Google Shopping May Go Deeper Into E-Commerce With “Buy Now” Button To Challenge Amazon

Google is reportedly floating the idea of a "Buy Now" button and two-day shipping program.

Ginny Marvin on December 15, 2014 at 5:33 pm | Reading time: 2 minutes

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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Google has been floating the idea of a “Buy Now” button on Google Shopping listings as well as a two-day shipping program.

According to the article:

Google has approached retailers about creating a “buy” button for its online shopping site that would be similar to Amazon’s popular “one-click ordering” feature, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Merchants would still handle all of the logistics of selling and shipping, but the buy button would aim to keep users in the Google Shopping environment rather than leading them directly to merchants’ sites to buy a product.

The shipping program would reportedly “allow merchants to promote two-day shipping for products purchased through its shopping service, according to a person who has been briefed on the plan”.

It’s not surprising Google would be exploring additional ways to build Google Shopping into a more complete e-commerce experience beyond a product search referral engine. Google faces steeper competition from sites — Amazon in particular, of course,  but also sites like Pinterest — that users increasingly turn to for commerce search.

Whether retailers will take to these ideas remains to be seen. WSJ says reception has been “cool” because retailers are weary of price wars and losing branding control if Google confines the shopping experience to its own site.

Google has not commented beyond saying they continually test ideas.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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