Google answers base questions ... not

by Marc Perton Oct 26th 2005

Google has issued a response to yesterday's leaks about its planned database service (which included the screenshot that appears above) with a vaguely worded statement about "testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps." Meanwhile, the base.google.com URL leads to a "403, Access Forbidden" error, leading at least some to speculate that the service is active but protected, since the 403 error is usually generated when a site's administrator blocks access to a directory. Google typically redirects traffic from inactive domains (such as calendar.google.com) back to the Google home page.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Vince said 3:33PM on 10-26-2005

The page is up right now..if you try to login it send you right back to the login page but still it doesnt show that 403 forbidden anymore

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