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Google Base Retail Rumours Confirmed
kaufmanmoore writes "According to an MSNBC report, the head of Google's European arm has said that Google wants to use Google Base for brick and mortar stores to submit lists of goods and prices in order to create an online presence." From the article: "Google would index and package the information into a consumer-friendly search engine, giving its users a virtual supermarket across a number of retail brands. Mr Arora said: 'Google Base is going to have a huge impact on retailers," adding that the move reflected internal research, which found many leading European retailers did not feel they were competitive enough online.'
FYI, Google Base is still under development. Most likely the service will give retailers access to hundreds of millions of Google users. You can visit it at base.google.com.
Face it my friend, in Internet terms we're older than the hills, and the youngsters here are rolling their eyes every time we give a phlegmy chuckle at one of those catch phrases from the good old days. Still, I for one welcome our new Google Base overlords, so long as they have Natalie Portman as their spokesmodel, naked and petrified.
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It is sort of like froogle without the screen scraping. Because the content provider enters the information about the item, there is all kinds of neat attributes that can be used to narrow the search. For example a honda civic can be classified by price, make, year, color, model, engine, mileage, door count, and body style. You can actually search for a used 2000-2002 civic sedan with 50-75k miles that costs less than $12,000 and is less than 100 miles from your house. It appears that cars.com has put all their car classifieds into the system which means that any car advertised in the washington post is in the system. If the car dealerships started to add their inventories it would be really cool. I'm not sure if it will take off because it of the desire of businesses to keep their prices from being compared.
Wot approximates to 'whatever' or 'whatnot' it's old.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The name comes from Banks. During US expantion in the 1800's, Banks held a lot of cash and were the only buildings in town to be built with "bricks and mortar".
hmm... for fun I enjoy launching DDoS attacks against 127.87.42.5
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