More Merchants for Online Shopping

Black Friday is the first day after Thanksgiving that marks the beginning of the Christmas holiday season and it is known as the most important day for shopping. At that time, Google released a new service for online shopping that was meant to offer customers an easier way for buying gifts and other stuff.

Today, the first workday after Thanksgiving, also known as Cyber Monday, Google announced that new more merchants were added to Google Checkout.

Tom Oliveri, Google Checkout team, said on his blog that the service is growing up so, just in time for holiday shopping, more shops were added to Google Checkout.

"According to a poll we recently commissioned from Harris Interactive, 40 percent of employed U.S. adults say they plan to do at least some of their online holiday shopping from work this year. So we aim to make all that pointing and clicking as fast, safe, and easy as possible.

Shopping with Google Checkout means using one user name, password and account to make purchases from thousands of merchants. It means serious protection from online fraud. And this holiday season it also means a nice bonus for your gift-buying budget; as a small holiday gift to all Checkout shoppers, you'll receive $10 off purchases of $30 or more, or $20 off purchases of $50 or more, depending on the merchant.

And just in time for the holidays, we're also happy to announce a growing number of merchants who recently added Checkout to their sites, including Toys R Us, Babies R Us, Golfsmith, Linens 'n Things, PetCo, and J&R Music and Computer World.

So settle in, log on, answer a few work-related emails (so you won't feel too guilty), and jumpstart your shopping season with Checkout," he said.