Google Offers Open for Subscription

Google Offers

Google's new 'deals' sevice Google Offers is now letting you sign up for its launch in Portland, Oregon.

If you visit the Google Offers website you will find a large Google Map and a drop-down menu that will sign you up to receive e-mails for deals from local businesses in a number of US cities.

Currently you can subscribe to receive deals in New York, San Francisco, Portland and Oakland. However, in this beta release of offers, it seems that only Portland deals will be active.

If you can't wait for the e-mail of offers to land in your in-box you can view the deals available in Portland in this Google Offers gadget for your iGoogle page.

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Google Offers on Google Maps

The Washington Post has noticed that you can now find Google Offers on Google Maps. Google Offers seems to be Google's answer to Groupon.



Google presumably is working on a dedicated site for Google Offers and will have an official launch at some stage. However, if you can't wait, you can find special offers now by adding a Google Offers gadget to your iGoogle page.

The gadget lets you search a location for offers. You can also search for offers by a type, e.g. 'pizza', 'hotels' etc.

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