If all the words about Google Base were being written on paper, entire forests would be flattened by now. Just a few takes from the torrent …
Peter Zollman: “Implications are staggering for individually created content in a wide range of fields. It’ll take a few days — no, actually a few years — to sort through that and see what all that means. But just a couple of week ago, Sergey Brin, one of the Google founders, told the Times, ‘Google Base is as much about classified as it is about zoology.’ And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.”
Charlene Li: “… Just having the data isn’t enough – you’ve got to be able to DO something with the data and no, just being able to search the information isn’t nearly enough. And this is where I think Google is on to something very big. At its core, Google Base is just one very big database of highly structured information. I can’t believe Google will just let it sit there, and instead, will develop APIs on which developers can build applications, in much the same way it allows them to create mash-ups around Google Maps.”
Fred Wilson: “While I am venting about Google this morning, I may as well share a feeling I’ve had lately about Google. They are lame. Not in their core search product which remains the single greatest web service in existence. But in many of their recent initiatives, Google has introduced a delay between submit and display. And that’s just lame in this day and age of instant recall.”
Bill Burnham: “In addition, it should not be lost on people that once Google assimilates all of these disparate feeds, it can combine them and then republish them in whatever fashion it wishes. Google Base will thus become the automated engine behind a whole range of other Google extensions (GoogleBay, GoogleJobs, GoogleDate) and it will also enable individual users to subscribe to a wide range of highly specific and highly customized meta-feeds. ‘Featured listings’ will likely replace or complement AdWords in this implementation, but the click-though model will remain.”
Will you use Google Base? Do you see it becoming a media content database?
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