Google Base goes live
Google Base officially goes live tonight. The Mercury News reported about the pending arrival of Google's online classifieds effort a couple of weeks ago, and it is almost exactly as we said.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/883
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... although currently it's looping on signing in at the moment...
SJ on November 15, 2005 9:28 PMComment link
Its not very functional right now. But it may be if you think about who might use it. Unstructured databases won䴜t be for the masses, this is more for mass listings and people who want to share massive amounts of information.
If people wanted to post databases and share them they would but on their own servers, sloppy databases should be done this way not in a walled garden which is opt-in rather than the Search model of going out, finding it, and then making it available (opt-out).
On that note: Storage is way to cheap to compel people to the cost of making their data public on a seperate servers, unless we are talking about the economics of spam here. (see splogs)
The Problem I see is the massive amounts of Spam that could be thrown into the mix. If it䴜s actively opted-in information gathering then I give the edge to the Spammers. I hope they like storing massive amounts of STALE spam.
Also, where is the focus? Talk about an unfocused way to enter into classifieds.
Brad on November 15, 2005 11:14 PMComment link
This is innovative how?
Oh right, it doesn't need to be anymore, people will say "oh wow cool" and Google will make more ad money.
John on November 16, 2005 1:09 AMComment link