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Google Base Launches
An anonymous reader writes "As announced on the Google Blog, Google Base has finally launched. According to Google, Google Base enables content owners to easily make their information searchable online. Anyone, from large companies to website owners and individuals, can use it to submit their content in the form of data items. We'll host the items and make them searchable for free."
All your Google base are belong to us.
Great, so now our top results are going to be clutered with samples of the info we're really looking for
Thanks, google
Well obviously. Why would Google deliberately introduce a service that would obviate the need for
Yeah but it'll be a government running Linux!
... I really wish I would have got some of that IPO a while back...
for a minute there I thought they were finally launching Copernicus Center, their Lunar base.
WTF?
Yes, because the web itself contains no broken links and no outdated information. It would be criminal to pollute such a reliable resource.
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So if we can use Google Base for free, does that mean we can free base? Far out, man.
These days, my experiences on the internet make me wonder how the world itself can survive under a heavy load of spam, honest mistakes, and deliberate mischief. Can someone explain that to me?
I'm in your google base. I'm killing your google mans!
Great! Now you can search for people in your local area selling their souls:
l e
http://base.google.com/base/search?q=souls+for+sa
I cannot find any porn. I think it is broken.
It's sort of like putting your money in a piggybank -- a piggybank not in your bedroom, but on *the other side of town*.
Like a bank?
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A random search reveals a new aspect to Google's business operations: http://base.google.com/base/items?oid=152787692968 78035551
Dude, this is the new monopoly coming in. Google$ it will be called on Slashdot anytime soon.
... you mean on Googledot :-)
Ehh
A stretch, but I like it. When do the Crusades start?
It would be useful if they actually provided some simple notification of updates to the services they provide
They do, it's called the Slashdot home page. In fact, there's even a simple reminder mechanism called Google Dupes.
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They're already running our governments, or at least the people behind Google are.
They couldn't read our brains with their satellite beams, because we out-smarted them with our protective foil hats. Instead they created a puppet company to create a popular search engine, and now they wait for people to send in their thoughts so they can combine them with their satellite images and records of our email and shopping habits.
But I'm onto you! You won't catch me running your desktop search!
Is this the beginning of the end for internet dating companies?
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Your use of the word 'most' disturbs me
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Interesting... would this person happen to be you? http://base.google.com/base/items?oid=674339201900 4287296
:) Has the person ever had a heartache? Any kind of trauma or other bad experiences? Denied God, Satan or any other such entity? Number of reincarnations if any? The list goes on and on to make an attempted appraisal. It seems obvious that the person is a virgin physically, that's at least one selling point but it would need to be documented to affect the selling price :)
It states: "You have my word on that my soul is pure and clean. I have never commited any sins or other bad acts, so please skip the 2 cents offers."
but I would contend he has already in the ad made at least the following sins:
- lying (about never ever having done anything even remotely bad)
- selling his soul (a sin in the eyes of a overwhelmingly large portion of religious humans, incidentally the group that are most likely to accept the concept of a soul in the first place, and many of whom would not even accept the validity of trying to sell it or that the seller is actually the owner of his own soul)
So the soul is obviously not in mint condition
Most buyers would probably want a guarantee on the souls condition from a higher authority if quality is meant to be a selling point.
In addition there is little product information, nor any guarantee or expiration date (the expiration date would be the time for which the seller could guarantee conferred ownership of the soul). If such a date is unknown to the seller many buyers could arrange such a date for their own purposes as long as it does not include any reverse transferral back to the seller. And most important of all the seller has not defined exactly what his soul is, most buyers would for example feel that they could litigate if buying the soul does not imply a full 100% direct control over the sellers soul at all times including all which that implies (by tradition; the sellers thoughts, actions, feelings, senses and soforth).
And what of those who would be interested in buying the soul for official purposes such as proving they have a soul (at least one)? If you have a deed to a human soul (even if transfer has not occured yet) could one not claim to be eligible to human rights, nationality, etceterea? Perhaps absurd right here and now but some time in the future it might not be, it could be a legal loophole for synthetic intelligences to gain human rights if otherwise denied such. All of this is a seperate futures market but does make it neccessary that the sale has an approved legal status in whatever human justice system the sale takes place, the seller needs to provide documentation to such effect if this is the market he's going for.
Any possibilites of "try before you buy"? What are the delivery arrangements?
What are the contractual agreements for exchange of the money and the soul? Almost all buyers would agree to an infinite sum if the transfer is immediate and includes the traditional implications.
The seller should be noted that all things considered the likely buyers would want the traditional contractual arrangements and a signature in the sellers blood witnessed by the buyer or representatives and confirmed by DNA comparison of the blood with three sample biopsis from any part of the sellers body, internal or external.
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