Watch Out Groupon…Google Offers Is Just Getting Started

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Going along with great apps from Google, the internet search engine announced that they will be launching their own version of Groupon, starting in Portland. Groupon was on Google's radar earlier, but they failed to purchase it, saying that they were in the process of creating their own program similar to Groupon. For those of you who don't know, Groupon is a website that gives out daily deals from a lot of different companies in your area. Read more about the new Google product from Mashable:

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has announced that the search giant will launch its Groupon competitor on Wednesday, starting with Portland.

The news that Google is getting into the daily deals space is not a surprise. Google attempted and failed to acquire Groupon for $6 billion last year. A few months later, Mashable exclusively learned that Google was developing a Groupon competitor called Google Offers.

At the D9 Conference in Palos Verdes, California, Schmidt and Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s VP of commerce, demonstrated the company’s new product. It’s just like Groupon in that it provides users a daily deal from “thousands of merchant partners.” Google showed off a deal for $10 worth of Floyd’s coffee for $3 on stage.

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