Groupon has been raking it in worldwide, with their cheap mass-buy deals for everything under the sun - so much so that Google offered to buy them out for $6 billion and they rejected the deal. Now Google are back with their Groupon-esque Google Offers, which promises "50% off or more at places you’ll love," or is that 50% off places you'll never go to again?

The advert they’ve released for it is a twee stop motion animation, where a folksy song narrates coloured blocks as they switch from cupcakes to bicycles to steaks. We're thinking Groupon have this market covered, and this might just go the way of Google Wave (remember that?) Google Offers is now in beta in Portland, New York and the Bay Area, check it out here.