Google Base: Google's new free database service

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Google Base: Google's new free database service

by Jordan Running Oct 25th 2005

The blogosphere is abuzz with news of Google Base, an enigmatic new database project from Google (insert All Your Base joke here). John Battelle broke the news this morning with a screenshot which says:

Google Base is Google's database into which you can add all types of content. We'll host your content and make it searchable online for free.

Examples of items you can find in Google Base:

Description of your party planning service

Articles on current events from your website

Listing of your used car for sale

Database of protein structures

You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle and Google Local.

It sounds a bit like a cross between Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Geocities. Google Base is supposed to be announced at the invite-only Zeitgeist conference later today.

Via Boing Boing.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

N. Godbout said 1:28PM on 10-25-2005

I don't notice anywhere that it says "BETA" on that screenshot. Must be a fake!

All Your Base Are Belong To Google (TM)

bob23 said 2:57PM on 10-25-2005

http://base.google.com/

I get a 403 error. Some thing is there... Its very much real.

paintist said 7:21PM on 10-25-2005

Yes... one step closer to Googlezon.

Jon said 5:56AM on 10-26-2005

It is an interesting idea. How useful it will be depends on how much storage one account gets. It's not likely that it will be "infinite" since gmail has a limit.

Maurice said 10:36AM on 10-26-2005

I'm so glad to hear about this. I'm looking forward to some more information on this.

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