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Google Base store connector

google base store connectorGoogle has made it easier to get your online store up and running on Google Base. They have created the Google Base store connector. The connector is an application that drops info about your store into the Google Base index. When people search, and get you're listing in the results, a direct link to your eBay, Amazon, or Yahoo store will show up. The Store Connector also helps the bulk upload of items by formatting them in the Google Base format, so you don't have to manually enter the items onto different websites. This is another great tool that Google has put together to push their online storefront solution. Making it easier for people to setup and manage storefronts could turn a lot more people onto Google Base as an effective sales tool.

Filed under: Developer, News, Web services, Google

Google mashes up own Maps, Base for real estate

google housingI'm not able to get this to work completely, and the connection is a little strange, but Google has apparently begun tying together the loose strands of services it provides. In this case, imagine a combination of Maps and Base to divine the housing market. Try typing in "homes for sale" as a search, and a new option appears atop the search results: Search Housing. You can further refine the search by location and type (rent, sale, or whatever). Once you've narrowed those items down, you get a list of housing results, but with another, more advanced refine above the results. Above each listing is a link called Location, which will take you to a Google Map. If you look at the URL you've landed on in this search, it's google.com/base/etc... Pretty nifty, although who knows when they'll do more with this. Right now those search results do indeed take you to the listing, not some special Google holding tank. Anyone else find any tricks to this?

UPDATE: As usual, this found its way onto digg several days ago. And yes, I know it's not a mashup.

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