I am glad to see someone is reading my http://www.sarver.org/site;)... but to elaborate...
To me what Google is doing is not "innovative" or "novel" in the terms of the logic behind what you see as the GoogleBase application... as it has been done many time over. Quickbase, Intranets.com and so many others have done the same thing (http://www.google.com/search?q=web+database). However, what is novel, is the fact that they are positioned to take full advantage of the information that you are inputting to their system and use it in such a way that allows them to leverage their existing search infrastructure to better index your content. Previous to this attempt, each company was solely positioned as a software product company, not as a search, or integrated search company... nor had any company opened their kimono in such a way as to allow other ASPs to use their back end as THE backend. kudos...
I am glad to see someone is reading my http://www.sarver.org/site;)... but to elaborate...
To me what Google is doing is not "innovative" or "novel" in the terms of the logic behind what you see as the GoogleBase application... as it has been done many time over. Quickbase, Intranets.com and so many others have done the same thing (http://www.google.com/search?q=web+database). However, what is novel, is the fact that they are positioned to take full advantage of the information that you are inputting to their system and use it in such a way that allows them to leverage their existing search infrastructure to better index your content. Previous to this attempt, each company was solely positioned as a software product company, not as a search, or integrated search company... nor had any company opened their kimono in such a way as to allow other ASPs to use their back end as THE backend. kudos...
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I am glad to see someone is reading my http://www.sarver.org/site ;) ... but to elaborate ...
To me what Google is doing is not "innovative" or "novel" in the terms of the logic behind what you see as the GoogleBase application... as it has been done many time over. Quickbase, Intranets.com and so many others have done the same thing (http://www.google.com/search?q=web+database). However, what is novel, is the fact that they are positioned to take full advantage of the information that you are inputting to their system and use it in such a way that allows them to leverage their existing search infrastructure to better index your content. Previous to this attempt, each company was solely positioned as a software product company, not as a search, or integrated search company... nor had any company opened their kimono in such a way as to allow other ASPs to use their back end as THE backend. kudos...
To me what Google is doing is not "innovative" or "novel" in the terms of the logic behind what you see as the GoogleBase application... as it has been done many time over. Quickbase, Intranets.com and so many others have done the same thing (http://www.google.com/search?q=web+database). However, what is novel, is the fact that they are positioned to take full advantage of the information that you are inputting to their system and use it in such a way that allows them to leverage their existing search infrastructure to better index your content. Previous to this attempt, each company was solely positioned as a software product company, not as a search, or integrated search company... nor had any company opened their kimono in such a way as to allow other ASPs to use their back end as THE backend. kudos...