- Google is improving visibility of Wallet’s international transfer tools by starting to surface them in Search.
- Buy-now-pay-later options are expanding from Google Pay to Chrome autofill.
- Chrome is starting to show reward details for a whole lot more credit cards.
Google has long grown beyond being a simple search company, and at this point its interests are so vast and varied that it can be more than a little difficult to cleanly categorize it. Those roles include plenty that you might not immediately associate with Google at first blush, but take a moment to think over the details, and they quickly start making perfect sense. Between Pay and Wallet, Google is clearly in the fintech business, and today we’re leaning about a few new ways Google hopes to improve how we spend money, borrow money, and send money.
Lots of us save our card info in Chrome to help streamline payments, but if you’re juggling multiple cards, it may not always be intuitive when checking out which card makes the most sense to use for a give purchase. Last May, Google introduced a new feature in Chrome that let you view the rewards that applied to your cards, helping you maximize benefits. That sounded like a fantastic idea, but was initially limited to cards from just a couple institutions.