Google Offers Has Arrived

Remember back in November when Google tried to acquire Groupon for $6 billion? Well, Groupon declined the deal and left Google hanging, but you didn’t really expect Google to back out of that market completely, did you?

 

Google has had another plan up its sleeve since January. The search engine mega giant has rolled out a beta test of its own daily deals engine called Google Offers, which is currently making its mark on Portland, New York City and the Bay Area.

Just like Groupon, Google Offers users just need to sign up here to receive daily discounts offers on restaurants, spa deals and other attractions in their email inboxes.

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Google has introduced a new element to the coupon subscription game, as Google Offers displays deals on a map and allows users to pick bargains based on location and compare competing deals within the service.

Although the actual offers are not yet available, the beta sign up is indeed live and folks can subscribe and eagerly await the service’s regular emails, which will first hit Portland, then New York, San Francisco and Oakland.

The pool of services in this vein is starting to get crowded—Facebook has launched Facebook Deals to connect users and local businesses with discounts, and Scoutmob, which offers subscribers mobile coupons that don’t require any initial purchase, has expanded to 13 cities with seven more on the horizon.

All this competition can only mean good things for the purchasing public, so keep it coming, guys.

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