Google Base Goes Live
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Written By Reprise Media | November 16, 2005 | Share This
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Now the entire world can see your baby picture. Google Base officially launched this morning.
The service enables users to make their content searchable online, with Google hosting and indexing the items for free.
People with smaller amounts of data can submit items via an interactive user interface; anyone with large amounts of data (for example, corporations) will be able to do bulk uploads using XML.
Google Base also gives users the power to tag specific items and uses this information as part of its ranking and results:
Here’s an excerpt from the Google Blog:
“Rather than impose specific schemas and structures on the world, Google Base suggests attributes and item types based on popularity, which you can use to define and attach your own labels and attributes to each data item. Then searchers can find information more quickly and effectively by using these labels and attributes to refine their queries on the experimental version of Google Base search.”
Sounds nice, but some wonder whether such a system is bound to succumb to spam.
There’s also issues with speed and usability:
From the A VC Blog:
“I submitted a theater review to Google Base this morning. And it took ten minutes to be processed and displayed. Does it take Craigslist that long to post a listing? No way.”
More commentary from Danny Sullivan here.
Topics: Google |