All
your 'base' are belong to Google
By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
October 27, 2005 6:36 AM PDT
Google is testing a new service that would allow
consumers to post and make searchable any type of
content, the company confirmed this week.
Screenshots of the "Google Base" service
surfaced this week, immediately prompting speculation
that the search giant was getting ready to take
on...someone.
Was the new offering the precursor to a new e-commerce
site that could wipe eBay and Craigslist off the
map? Or maybe Google was developing a massive information
storage service?
For its part, a Google spokeswoman stated that
the site was merely experimenting with a way to
"provide content owners an easy way to give
us access to their content."
But as bloggers and analysts have had more time
to think about it, one theme emerged--by combining
search, commerce, community and other features,
the new offering had the potential to be something
far bigger than a simple online store.
(So why exactly is the headline of this item ungrammatical?
It's a reference to an infamously tin-eared translation
in the English-language version of a Japanese video
game--a phrase that in turn gave birth to a separate
Internet fad. Read all about it in this entry in
Wikipedia.)
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