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Google charges membership for online shopping service

“Google is willing to step into an unchartered territory in order to compete with Amazon for user traffic and performance-based advertising opportunities,” said Harry Wang, director of health and mobile product research at Parks Associates.

From the article "Google charges membership for online shopping service" by Wendy Lee.

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