Just last week, the product launched in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with 25 more cities promised in the near future. I guess that leaves 21 more to be on the look out for soon, though it’s highly doubtful they’ll stop there.

The first offer for Baltimore is for the Blue Hill Tavern, which is called one of the city’s “most impressive dining spaces.” For Minneapolis, it’s the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In San Diego, customs can get an offer from Crazee Burger, and in San Jose, it’s Sonoma Chicken Coop.

While some of the daily deals providers have seemingly backed off a little (namely Facebook and Yelp), it’s clear that Google is far from backing off of the space.

Last week, Google also introduced a new feature for Google Wallet called “Featured Offers,” which gives Google Wallet users more exclusive offers from businesses.

As you may recall, Google tried to buy Groupon last year, but Groupon turned down the offer (reported to have been in the ballpark of $6 billion). It’s been a somewhat turbulent year for Groupon, though the IPO is supposedly back on track. The company is also testing the e-commerce waters, which could end up being huge for the company.

But despite come competitors pulling back a bit, the fact remains that there is a lot of competition in this space, and that includes a product from Internet giant Google, which just launched Google Wallet – an important product for continued success of Google Offers.

According to a report from Yipit, Google Offers is already doing pretty well in the few markets it’s available in. “Google Offers didn’t do particularly well in August – total revenue dropped 23% from July despite a 22% increase in its total number of deals,” the firm reports. “However, Google’s Daily Deal product has radically improved in September. Through just the first three weeks of the month, Google has already surpassed last month’s total revenue of $265k and is on track to more than double this figure by month’s end.”

“Google isn’t running significantly more deals in these markets – deal performance is markedly improving,” says Yipit. “Through the first three weeks of September, revenue per deal is up 160% and vouchers sold per deal has increased five-fold.”

Google did plug Google Offers on the Google homepage recently. It also launched in more markets and acquired DailyDeal. Still, the company is running “far fewer” deals in any given market than Groupon and LivingSocial, according to Yipit, who says Google is closing in on LivingSocial on average revenue per deal, and is selling more voucherws per deal than both LivingSocial and Groupon.

On Friday, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason announced that COO Margo Georgiadis is returning to Google, which is actually where she used to work.

Foursquare announced that Foursquare Specials will no include “deals” from partners LivingSocial, Gilt City, Zozi, BuyWithMe, and AT&T Interactive.

“We help you discover the deals that are right for you,” Foursquare says on the company blog. “We now run all Specials through our personalized Explore tab. As a result, you only see Specials that are right for you, and you also see why they’re right for you (for instance, if two of your friends have been there).”

“If you’re walking around and see a Special you like, a couple taps in your app and you’ll be able to buy it, all without leaving foursquare,” the company adds. “And if you find a good Special while browsing on foursquare.com, you can buy it there, too.”

Foursquares deals are available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The company also says it will be featuring more types of deals in the coming months.

Google announced today that it is launching the Google Offers beta in New York City and the Bay Area. It was previously only available in Portland, so this marks the first expansion of the service, which the company hopes will be able to take on Groupon and LivingSocial head on. Coupled with the Google+ and Google’s numerous other products (like search, advertising, and place pages) I’d say its chances or doing so are pretty good.

Users can buy, view and redeem a Google Offer of the day with Google Shopper 2.0 for Android now. Purchased offers will appear in a “my offers” tab.

“Shopper will also connect you to all kinds of deals that are near you in the Nearby Offers tab, so wherever you are, you can still get great offers from Google even if you haven’t signed up for the daily deals in Portland, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area,” says Eric Rosenblum, Product Management Director for Google Offers.

Google’s Marissa Mayer did an interview with Media Beat, reminding us that Google already had some things that could compete with Groupon, and with the right integration and implementation of products, could be a viable player in the space.

“I think that when you look at our overall suite of services, especially around our advertising, we already have some things that are like this,” Mayer said. “We have things like coupons and offer extension ads that allow merchants to basically make offers to our users. So we’re looking at how we can take that technology and put it to use, especially in the location space.”

Here’s the full interview:

Fast forward a bit, and Google officially launched its first Google Offers deals in Portland at the beginning of this month. The product is, for all intents and purposes, essentially a Groupon clone. While some may have dismissed Google’s entry into this space as just that, now comes an interesting discovery by Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling, which seems to fall more in line with a broader vision, and with Mayer’s discussion.

Sterling happened across a Google “offer ad” in the wild (which has been known to be in testing), but when he clicked “view offer,” he was taken to an offer page with a button for “save to My Offers,” that when clicked takes you to a “My Offers” dashboard, which he describes as a “repository for several deal types that Google appears to have up its sleeve”.

So, all of these Google-based offers would appear in the same place in your Google account, making for an easy way to access them, which could be huge for user engagement.

In addition, the concept would seemingly give Google more flexibility in its own “offers” offerings – to delve more into other areas, such as location, like Mayer talked about, for example. The thing about Google is that it has so many products that it could find ways to integrate offers into. So many products tied to that one Google account. Think search, Gmail, Latitude, Places, etc. They have a lot of ways to potentially get offers in front of users’ eyeballs, and an email-style Groupon clone appears to be only a part of their strategy.

It’s no secret that Groupon-like services have been coming out of the woodwork, and plenty of questions about the company’s future remain. The main one would be: Can the Groupon remain the leader in this space?

Clearly it’s fairly easy to launch some form of daily deals service – maybe not on the scale that Groupon has managed to achieve, but a service doesn’t have to cater to such a scale to be successful. That’s why so many niche versions of the daily deals service are popping up in locations all over the world. That’s also why aggregation of deals is likely to become more important to consumers than any one deals service. Things like what PriceGrabber just launched, and location-based mobile offerings – like what Loopt is doing with Groupon Now Alerts, but if they had such alerts for a plethora of deals services, giving consumers lists of relevant deals based on their physical location.

Mason considers there to be three types of competitors (and Mason’s comments throughout this article are as noted by All Things Digital): straight-up clones, sleeping giants, and the ones out of left field. Mason takes issues with the clones, saying that Groupon spent two years pivoting before it landed on its current model.

“We are proud of the idea in the way anyone would be if they invented something,” he’s quoted as saying. “All the clones were drafting everything we were doing. I was a music major, and with music, we call that plagiarism. But in business it’s called competition.”

Later, he added, “competition is good for the consumer,” “innovation is good for the space, ” and “As along as we make a product that people love more than anything else, we’ll be successful.”

Swisher prodded him about turning down Google’s offer to buy the Groupon, but he just said Groupon is happy as an independent company. He did make a joke at Google’s expense, with regards to Google’s new Groupon competitor Google Offers, saying “What they really did well is integration with Buzz,” which evidently got big laughter from the audience.

On that note, Google launched its +1 button for websites yesterday, and many sites immediately replaced the Google Buzz buttons on their content, raising serious questions about the future of Buzz. Google Offers also officially launched this week, in Portland. Groupon is currently in 46 countries.

According to Mason, local commerce is a $12 $14 billion market, and if Groupon gets 10% of it, they’ll be happy.

Google Offers was announced in February, and the beta first went live in April. Today, consumers in Portland can get a deal, or…an offer.

The first offer comes from Portland coffee shop Floyd’s Coffee. “Husband-and-wife team Jack Inglis and Cris Chapman opened Floyd’s seven years ago, offering up espresso, coffee, breakfast burritos and more,” says Google Offers Product Manager Kyle Harrison. “They now have two convenient locations—one cozy, brick-lined shop in Old Town and another Stumptown watering-hole in Buckman.”

Google says it’s working with other local Portland businesses Le Bistro Montage, Powell’s Books, and Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade on other offers.

Google Offers will launch in New York City and San Francisco next, and the company says it hopes to launch in other cities soon.

It sure is getting off to a slow start. It feels like this is the third time they’ve launched the product, and it’s only just launched its first offer for the city of Portland. Groupon and LivingSocial are gaining ground in this space all over the place, and Facebook has entered the fray as well, not to mention plenty of smaller, niche players. Even Glenn Beck has entered on the game.

Groupon is going so far as to make deals with location-based services like Loopt and Foursquare to spread its deals (not to mention having bought such a service of its own). Google has plenty of advantages (search, Place Pages, and Android to name a few) that will come into play for Google Offers, but it’s going to have to expand quickly to cover a lot more ground to give Groupon a run for its money.