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Android Pay

Finance — A simple and secure way to pay with your Android phone [Android, Payments, Tech]
Financeest. 2015
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+8.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 3770 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
android.googleblog.com
edge
direct origin
server
GSE
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Android Pay's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://android.googleblog.com/2015/05/pay-your-way-with-android.html) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 3 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Payoneerfinancecurated40.00.0● live
Apple Payfinancecurated40.0+32.0● live
Dashproductivitycurated40.00.0● live
OpenTable- Paymentsfinancesimilar80%17.60.0— unverified
Card Controlfinancesimilar80%13.10.0— unverified
Bytes - MasterCard hopes to make your next purchase as easy as taking a selfiefinancesimilar80%40.00.0● live
SWYPfinancesimilar80%40.00.0● live
payQwiqfinancesimilar80%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives3
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:20Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE2871redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:15Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE2695redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:49Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE3240redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:45Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE3285redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:02Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE3399redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:17Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE3156redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:40Z10005timeout
2026-07-17 09:44Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE6960redirected_offsite
2026-07-11 09:03Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE6624redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 13:00Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE2422redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:09Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE1902redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:14Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE539redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:14Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE2962redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 05:03Z200officialandroid.blogspot.com → android.googleblog.comGSE2721redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Android Pay · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/android-pay · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.