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."

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Re:Google Talk

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

With their own voicechat hacked on, and with server to server messaging turned off. It would be like if AIM went open by switching to IRC as their backend, but still released no specs as to how direct connections/file sharing/webcams/voice chat worked. Sounds open in theory, is worthless in practice. Google does nothing by using jabber. We can already use third party clients for all other IM systems, thats not where jabber means anything, where jabber is useful is in server to server messaging (as in, my friends and i on our local jabber server being able to message gtalk users.) Google doesn't allow this, and thus is pretty irrelivant in the jabber world, and already irrelivant in the IM world due to lack of features.