seweso's blog: Google base

dinsdag, oktober 25, 2005

Google base

Google is going to launch a new service: Google-base! Funny is the fact that I predicted this here which inspired Tony Ruscoe to check the subdomains of google and really found base.google.com!

More information at blogsearch. This is not a technical post, this is not a technical post :P

Update: My name is reported on the page of Tony Ruscoe like it should be. This is really cooliedewoopsie, i am part of google-history. And what is more cool then google+database. I mean i love databases AND google!

Update: Wat is http://www.googlebase.com/ en http://www.googlebase.fr/ ??

Update: I am being mentioned on the main page of blog.outer-court.com! A more permanent link to the article here.

Update: High quality versions of the above screenshots 1 & 2.

Update: Html of edit-page (so you have the entire page) here.

Update: Added englisch version of this post with advanced switching mechanism (works with AND without javascript).

Update: It is live again, new picture:

(high quality version)

Update: It seems to be down again, i'm glad i made the extra picture...

Update: This is the standard list of things you can publish on google-base:

Course Schedules
Events and Activities
Housing
Jobs
News and Articles
People Profiles
Products
Reference Articles
Reviews
Services
Travel
Vehicles
Wanted Ads

But you can also add you're own type of data (also private data i think).

Update 26 okt 22:28: Base up base down base up base down. What will it be? Just now I was able to get to the front page, i clicked login, signed in with my gmail account and it seemed to work...but to bad... got back to the log-in page. Tried to login 78 times...but nothing. :'(

The login-page (because it might be down in a few minutes):

The google-account page with base:

posted by seweso # 13:01

Comments:

well well let's wait for this new feature!

# posted by nando_master : 25 oktober, 2005 16:39

Nice job on creating an English/ Dutch switcher. It makes much sense, as this post is mentioned in Businessweek and many other places now...

# posted by Philipp : 25 oktober, 2005 19:30

Normally only my friends/family visit my site...so no need to do everything in english.

I hope people notice the javascript and plain link aproach, more websites should do that...

# posted by seweso : 25 oktober, 2005 19:58

Looks like you're on memeorandum too! Nice work!

# posted by PeteCashmore : 26 oktober, 2005 00:44

There is much more to this than an "ebay/craigslist" killer. This is the first part of Google putting ALL YOUR INFORMATION on line that you currently have lying around on your desktop. Before there was no way of doing this other than creating a website which most people are too lazy to do.

Oh, and guess what, once you have your documents uploaded on Googlebase, in a few months they'll roll out Google Office and you'll be able to edit them right there!

It's not just a death knell for eBay, it's a death knell for Microsoft but people don't see it yet.

# posted by Ld : 26 oktober, 2005 01:50

Linking to your post...great prediction!

# posted by Sarah : 26 oktober, 2005 03:09

I disdain being told to use a proper browser while using Opera 8.5. It is not IE, therefore it is a proper browser. If you're so high and righteous, why don't you use a proper operating system? --> Get Linux!
At least fix the $HTTP_USER_AGENT bit... :P

Anyways, nice Google Base screenshots, even if they just happen to be surrounded by that hideous Redmond-Grey color....

# posted by some slashbot : 26 oktober, 2005 03:41

The user-agent check is a bit childish, i know. I had already planned to fix this but I haven't found the time.

An other reason for the message is because opera and ie mess up the page, but that is probably my fault... Ooh and konquer does work (i checked it just now with colinux+kde :D)

And sorry for the redmond-gray-color, as you can see i work with foxpro. You can't run Foxpro under Linux (it is not allowed by ms). But we might switch all our software to LAMP-XS (Linux, Apache, MySql, Php, Xml, Xslt) :P

# posted by seweso : 26 oktober, 2005 09:05

google's going to be mother of the internet. doing almost everything for they children. us .i only ask if there be other company to split this monopol ?

# posted by sebah : 26 oktober, 2005 12:54

All you guys getting so excited about technology and missing the huge problem that is not addressed here - why should someone use this?

With email and search it's obvious. The problem appears to be with this is it's too broad. I don't think ebay or craigslist have anything to worry about as it could potentialy be a huge great mess.

# posted by Anonymous : 26 oktober, 2005 14:00

Google does for the internet what Microsoft did for the desktop: simplify everything.

As far as I can see google-base is very simple, very flexible and very generic. And on top of it all... it is free! And you can use it next to your e-bay listing if you want to. So my question is: why wouldn't you use it?

Google is in the search business, but searching poorly structured information (blobs of text) does not really work that well. Google-base will help you organize your data (sounds familiar?). To do that they need the information direct from you and not in e-bay's or craiglist's format...

# posted by seweso : 26 oktober, 2005 15:01

Hmm, could be interesting.

KrKr (who *is* using a proper brower, IE works just fine)

# posted by Anonymous : 26 oktober, 2005 15:07

Wow ! And ebay is crying...

Yuppie

# posted by Anonymous : 26 oktober, 2005 16:48

Thanks for this interesting Blog-Post. Indeed this is a big thread for lots of publishers as well as Ebay, Yahoo, Microsoft, Craiglist and Co. Goolge can use this as the "base" to even set up it's on auctioning plattform a la ebay...

# posted by E-Commerce Blog : 26 oktober, 2005 17:39

I wonder if in our lifetimes we'll see Google develop a consciousness upload tool.

# posted by Alejandra : 26 oktober, 2005 17:47

Google Base is Live atleast for the time being.

# posted by Anonymous : 26 oktober, 2005 21:40

I can even sign in! :P

# posted by seweso : 26 oktober, 2005 22:12

Correction: Hmm, correction: I can't log in ... :(

Balen zeg.

# posted by seweso : 26 oktober, 2005 22:14

I really hope they put an API on top of this.

Combine that with the ability to flag an item as private and this will put a ton of CMS vendors out of business.

My mashup sites...
http://xboxradar.com
http://judgejohnroberts.com
...already use Backpack to do web-based CMS for my polls and link lists but this could provide much more flexible content types.

Wow.

# posted by Xbox Radar : 26 oktober, 2005 23:12

Certainly is an attempt to own consumer information. Cute.

# posted by Anonymous : 27 oktober, 2005 00:01

Ebay will not easily be toppled. Mark my words!

~Jenniferk~
web master of www.milliondollarsweethearts.com

# posted by Anonymous : 27 oktober, 2005 17:40

See that you have Orkut. Can someone please send me an invite as I've been waiting to get one for over a year now. It would be much appreciated!

Brad
bcerhart(at)bcerhart.com

# posted by Anonymous : 27 oktober, 2005 19:45

I doubt e-Bay will be hurt, they will more likely benefit. With Google base, people can post info about their auction and get a way of drawing people (who are not already searching for their offeirng on e-Bay) to their particular auction.

Online yellow page directories are probably the ones that will hurt big time.

Google base will result in higher quality of search results - in particular search results for products and services - as companies are given the opportunity to have more and better information about their offerings indexed at Google.

Smart, very smart, Google guys!

# posted by Thomas : 02 november, 2005 10:41

I wonder if this google base things will be spammed too like blogger and so on... i'm pretty sure that hackers will make some programs to automate the process of listing stuff on google base only for their own profit, redirecting to their own sites or sponsors...

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# posted by Anonymous : 08 november, 2005 13:02

Au contraire! I predict Google will die.

That's way before Ebay and Microsoft do...
Too much hype with that company. Too many Billions and I don't see much action. Do you really think all of those (millions) of Ebay users are going to switch to a Google clone, and forget about their hard earned feedback scores and Paypal accounts??? (Ebay owns paypal...)
I don't think so.
They'd have to come up with something that would be ten times as better in order to switch...
Is this it?? No. This is too little too late.
Always remember... Google is an advertising company, not a technology company. Tech companies are real innovators... All these guys are after are advertising bucks.

# posted by Anonymous : 17 november, 2005 16:45

I do not think that is very likely. Google will add its purchasing system in the near future. Google can transfer money directly to your bank-account, that is very easy. Furthermore, google-base will not be a direct competitor of ebay because it can coexist: you can add your items to base as well and link to ebay. Ebay could even do it for you, but probably only if they really have to.

And google isn't just an advertising company because they are this big because they created a cheap scalable cluster-operating-system-thing. Advertising is just something that has to be done...

# posted by seweso : 17 november, 2005 17:01

Personally, I think Google is getting to big and that we need more competition! Google Ad Word is just short of fraudulent as so many clicks are fake bot click-throughs and they know it... here they are going to ad more features to place the Ad Word advertisements only to continue to turn a blind eye to the fraud that is losing advertisers millions of dollars per year! While I understand why people love some of the newer features such as google maps, Google should be focusing on better it search engine and fraud department.

# posted by Anonymous : 30 november, 2005 05:42

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