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Google Developing Database Service
QuantumT writes "Ars Technica has the details on the unannounced Google
Base service that will allow anyone with a Google Account to post information and other types of data into a massive, Google-run database. Ars believes that the company is
gearing up to take on eBay and Craiglist, which makes sense given the Google Payment service that is in development. Google has commented, saying, 'This is an early-stage test of a
product that enables content owners to easily send their content to Google. Like our web crawl and the recently released Google Sitemaps program, we are working to provide content
owners an easy way to give us access to their content.' There's a few screenshots as well."
base.google.com pictures
Oh, I just submitted the following story:
It seems that Google is going to announce a new service called Google Base today at the invite only Google Zeitgeist conference. At the moment, we only have a few screenshots and a pretty interesting discussion at threadwatch.org. Conflicting rumors have pointed to a new Google database, classifieds like Craigslist, an Ebay contender or just another way to submit URLs.
This is why Google also needs a trust network. They certainly could begin to leverage Orkut to do this. I'd give more credence to an information source if I knew that someone in my trust network also gave credence to it.
Check this out.
from the google blog:
You may have seen stories today reporting on a new product that we're testing, and speculating about our plans. Here's what's really going on. We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps. We think it's an exciting product, and we'll let you know when there's more news.
This post, and others like it, are data, but not information. Now, if the stars are in alignment, this post will be ironically moderated "informative".
A joke, but they'd be sued by eBay if they did. A Lego sales site with the name "brickbay" was ordered not to use any name with "bay" in it.
Pretty pathetic of eBay in my opinion.
And please no horseshit about "if a company doesn't defend their trademark... blah blah blahhhh" which has been repeated to death around here.
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.