Just found this on Inside Adsense "Ads with shopping cart sign"

[anurag_online]

Now on an AdSense ad format near you: shopping carts
Starting today, you may notice some AdSense ads displaying the Google Checkout shopping cart badge alongside the ad title. These small icons identify ads that link to sites where shoppers can buy via Google Checkout. The addition of the Checkout badge makes it easier for people to find sites where they can use Google Checkout's quick, easy and secure checkout option when making a purchase.



In addition to shopping carts on AdSense, we're also introducing new badges on ads that appear in Google search results. We hope you enjoy these new additions to our ad formats. It's another step in our ongoing efforts to enhance the experiences of AdSense publishers, AdWords advertisers, and visitors to your site.

Hope adsense is making itself better day by day. This will really help dvertisers to get more people.

Link to the POST. http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/02/...-near-you.html

[godmode]

i saw that already and someone posted about it yesterday...thanks for the official news though

[Asen Kovachev]

I believe I started seeing those late last year (like in October or may be November)

Google Checkout is having a really hard time taking market share over from PayPal though.

[altyfc]

Sounds like Google are using other people's sites to get further leverage for their own products.

[kingspice]

Is google checkout just googles version of online payments e.g. paypal?

[330td]

Yes it is

[Crusader]

Originally Posted by kingspice

Is google checkout just googles version of online payments e.g. paypal?

Not strictly speaking. Checkout is more focused on merchant sites and allows sites to accept credit card payments. It doesn't have the functionality that PayPal has of sending money to another person (person to person transfers).

[Asen Kovachev]

Originally Posted by altyfc

Sounds like Google are using other people's sites to get further leverage for their own products.

Well... it's a deal you sign I believe you have the option not to do so. But they give you Free AdWords money (like 10% or something) if you use Google Checkout for every purchase that occurs. I say it's a good incentive program.

The problem is that PayPal has such a huge market penetration that it's virtually impossible to replace them... EVEN if you are Google.