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Microsoft's Answer to Google Base
douglips writes "Today Information Week is reporting on a forthcoming service from Microsoft intended to compete with Google Base. Instead of the freewheeling anything-goes nature of Google Base, the Microsoft project code named 'Fremont' will focus solely on classified ads. It will also allow restricting items to various audiences such as social networks or domain names. At this point, though, it appears to be a beta restricted to Microsofties." From the article: "In building Freemont, Wiseman and his five-person crew tried to make it both personal for people who only want to trade among family, friends and colleagues, while also providing the option of a public posting. Classifieds is a growing piece of the booming online advertising market that's expected to reach $13.8 billion by 2007, surpassing advertising spent on magazines, according to JupiterResearch. During that timeframe, spending on display ads and online classifieds together are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent. "
With all their wizardry, maybe they could use it to find posts like this one from 2 days ago!
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
... I'm here only to see the bashing :)
Today Information Week is reporting on a forthcoming service from Slashdot intended to compete with Slashdot. Instead of the freewheeling anything-goes nature of Slashdot, the Slashdot project code named 'dupe' will focus solely on repeating previous stories. At this point, though, it appears to be a beta restricted to Slashdotters.
A bit like this story ;)
You know what you duping?
Microsoft are going to beat Base twice as hard!
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Google for "Google Base" Is that anything like Cuckoo for Coco Puffs?
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29 comments and not a single "All your base..." joke. Gotta be a record.
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Google Base Beta? That's the followup to Foxbase Alpha, isn't it?
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They'll frecking bury it, they have done it before, they will do it again, ....
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You never heard of Google Qaeda?
Actually this is not so similar to Google Base, but a more direct (and small-thinking) rip off of Craigslist, as far as I can see. There is the similarity that Microsoft also have a search engine to directly map over this data, but eWeek are going much too far (also in http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1877217,00.as p [eweek.com], linked) in ignoring the fundamental differences between a community listing site, an auction site (where the role of the provider is much more hands-on) and the need for Google to get their engine to work with sites dynamically generated from a back-end database...
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