Official Google Blog: First Base. ⇒
16 November 2005, lunch time
Google Launches their latest offering, Google Base. Essentially you can create custom listings. I could make one for DVDs for example, and describe the attributes of a DVD, and then input all the DVDs I own, and ta-da, I have a list of my movies that myself and others can search.
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More search engine spam. Thanks Google!
by Sunny on November 16 2005, 9:42 pm #
We’ll have to wait and see if and how this gets gamed. Tom Coates explains why it might be cool at his web site.
by ramanan on November 17 2005, 1:30 am #
Yeah, thats right. Its definitely cool. And that’s how Google gets away with a lot of things. I am usually not this paranoid but Google is increasingly becoming the funnel through which all information will eventually flow. And Google seeks to make a profit on each information transaction—through relevant ads. Well Microsoft were thinking of the same as well. In this case, we seem to be begging Google to be the internet overlords.
I am just amazed how clever they are. Actually a better word would be awestruck—a combination of admiration and fear.
by Sunny on November 17 2005, 2:46 am #
well, part of it is that Microsoft was pushy as a used-car salesman, whereas Google just kind of puts their offerings out there and sits back with understated-but-self-assured charm.
that, and Microsoft’s products weren’t that good, whereas Google’s (the ones I’ve tried) are really effective…
by Weiguo on November 17 2005, 2:10 pm #
Funnel.
by Sunny on November 18 2005, 4:26 am #