Are you waiting for the next page rank update from Google to move up their results page and bring you a flood of new traffic? (aren’t we all?) Well a little well places birdie told me last night that Google are getting close to an update - in fact a page rank update is scheduled for anytime in next 10days as of today.

Of course I’m not about to guarantee the dates - but my source generally knows what he’s talking about so I guess we’ll see in a couple of weeks.

Google today announced the launch of their own rival to PayPal, Google Checkout.

"Google Checkout offers an easy and trusted checkout option that enables shoppers to purchase from participating stores with a single Google login. It also works with Google's search advertising program, AdWords, to help merchants acquire new customers and process all or a portion of their Checkout sales for free."

I will have a look into this to see how well this works, I'm particularly interested in seeing how the AdWords intergration performs. Starbucks Store, Levi's, Timberland and Buy.com are e-commerce websites already using Google Checkout.