GoogleBase = an Online Database Application = what?
"Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free. "
Google Blogoscoped -> perhaps the highest number of users of any site + a free place to keep everything you want to share or get attention for + puchase/accounts system for micro payment -> How many websites are not much more than really big databases? eBay. Craigslist. Mobile.de. Google could be competing with all of them at once. Combine Google Base, the fact that Google Base content will show up in the search results and the upcoming "Google Wallet" and what you get might be serious trouble for some large companies. - Base + Froogle + Wallet == Yahoo Stores or Amazon Sellers. Google is putting all the pieces in place to compete with Amazon and eBay. - I personally created a few database systems where you can easily add custom fields to store any type of data. - It’s live right now (13:22 CT Tuesday 10/25) – you should be logged into your personalized Google home page, then type base.google.com into your browser and you will be there. Looks to be a generalized system for posting items (text, ads, jobs, merchandise, calendars) on Google. -> All your base are belong to us!
seweso blog - There is much more to this than an ’ebay/craigslist’ killer. This is the first part of Google putting all your information on line that you currently have lying around on your desktop. Before there was no way of doing this other than creating a website which most people are too lazy to do. Oh, and once you have your documents uploaded on Googlebase, in a few months they’ll roll out Google Office and you’ll be able to edit them right there...
google-blog.dirson - Google wants to become a meeting-point where users share their information, instead of crawling it with their robots by accessing webpages. A Google spokesperson claims that today's webpage is "en early-stage test of a product that enables content owners to easily send their content to Google, but we don't have anything to announce at this time".
Businessweek-Google Base A Rival for eBay and Craigslist? good comments:-Just like Paypal is to payments, and eBay to auctions, and Skype to VoIP, Google is to search and Yahoo to content and email.-Their strength is search, and revenue source is ads. Anything else they do, will just enable them to broaden their ad base, without having to pay a percentage to 3rd parties. Gmail, maps, talk, everything they do, is in line with their mission, "Collect as much of the available content as possible" [ so they can advertise on it].
Google Base and Google's Better Late Than Never Arrival Into Real EstateThere has been some talk this morning onto what will actually be included into Google Base, there are some nice screenshots that have come live this morning. Giving us a little glimpse of how Google thinks the world's information should be organized. Here is a shot where you can post your items to Google Base and another shot where you need enter in some information about a house.