In terms of traffic growth and market share, it’s just no contest. So many more people hit eBay’s options that Google’s Checkout and Base may as well be invisible.

When Microsoft is beating Google at something, it can’t be a good thing. As Hitwise analyst LeeAnn Prescott noted in her look at how Google Base and Checkout have fared since last summer against eBay and PayPal, Windows Live Expo has a larger market share than Google Base.

The editor and participants at the lively sports blog Deadspin attempted to establish a fund to benefit the family and platoon of Adam Knox, who died in the service of his country.

The NYT takes a look at Google efforts to take market share away from eBay’s PayPal. The two are in a battle for the right to process credit card payments of companies looking for an alternative to merchant accounts.

Google’s young online payment service, Checkout, is one of the few Google products to live up to the hype in some time. As of Cyber Monday 2006, Checkout halved PayPal’s market share lead.

Hitwise reports that downstream traffic to Google Checkout is up 30% in the past four weeks, with the number one store, by far, being Buy.com. Buy delivered 18.3% of Checkout’s traffic, with number 2 Dick’s Sporting Goods way behind at 4.8%. Of course, Google’s major “Free Money” promotion is the biggest thing driving people to use the service, and with it running until the end of December, we’ll have to wait for January numbers to see if there is a big drop-off.

Windows Live Expo, Microsoft’s community classifieds system, has added some new features.

Accepting electronic payments is essential to an ebusiness. The UK is Europe’s largest ecommerce economy with 27.7 million UK having shopped online- and it is growing fast.

PayPal’s president has been replaced by Skype’s president, while eBay drops Google Checkout into the laundry list of alternative payment services banned by the online marketplace.

Online marketplace eBay disclosed some senior management changes, including the “planned departure” of Jeff Jordan, president of the PayPal payment processing division of eBay.

PayPal President Jeff Jordan said his company is ready and waiting for any competing payment services that Google may launch. The GBuy system is supposed to come out on June 28, according to a note from RBC analyst Jordan Rohan.

RBC Capital Markets believes Google’s new online payment system, called GBuy, could be the next big thing. The financial services provider, based in Canada, is maintaining its “outperform” rating on Google due to the perceived potential of GBuy.

The honeymoon may be over for PayPal clients using their accounts to funnel money from offshore and avoid the Internal Revenue Service. A federal court in California granted the IRS permission to seek account information from the eBay-owned company.

The Internal Revenue Service began the process for obtaining information from eBay-owned PayPal on certain money transfers outside the US.

The new service from PayPal where users of mobile phones can pay for goods with a text message or phone call will be able to try out the service during Bravo’s “Top Chef” series.

PayPal has just launched a new service called PayPal Mobile.

EBay’s online payment service PayPal is gearing up to offer mobile phone payments via text messaging. Recently surpassing 100 million users, PayPal’s impending service was apparently outed by the blogosphere when bloggers noticed some telling test pages.

With a PayPal account, users can send and receive payments from their using text messaging from their mobile phones.

I spoke to David Miller of Internetnews.com yesterday and shared with him my thoughts on Google’s new payment processing service.

In the ever-evolving world of mobile commerce, a logical area of future opportunity is payments made through mobile devices.

Several retailers have been quietly testing a Google payment system called GBuy, and users will see a GBuy icon next to AdWords paid search ads. PayPal has dominated the online payment field for some time. It has been a profitable business, one which eBay purchased in October 2002.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, here comes a tag sale tale. From the always credible PR Web, comes this gem of a press release.