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in a move that could put google in competition with ebay, the search giant is testing a new service that would allow people to post and make searchable any type of content, a google spokeswoman confirmed tuesday.
"this is an early stage test of a product that enables content owners to easily send their content to google," a google spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail. "like our web crawl and the recently released google sitemaps program, we are working to provide content owners an easy way to give us access to their content. we're continually exploring new opportunities to expand our offerings, but we don't have anything to announce at this time."
some bloggers speculated that google base was the precursor to an e-commerce site that would go up against online auction company ebay.
"google's just launched 'google base,' a service to insert and share all types of content: events, housing, jobs, products, second-hand vehicles," a blogger called "dirson" wrote on new google blog.
"the information will be included in the main google search index and other google products like froogle and google local," dirson wrote. "we expect that 'google purchases'--the new micropayments service among users--will be also introduced as a complement to 'google base.'"
"is it time to forget crawlers for certain types of content? will the typical user take the time to send material directly to google? what about ebay? just some of the many questions, no answers, and google isn't talking," wrote gary price in his blog on search engine watch.
"this sounds big and immensely interesting," wrote philipp lenssen on his google blogoscope blog. "is google putting a layer in between dynamic web sites and their databases, replacing mysql/postgresql/ms sql, and creating a new googlesql...possibly, with their ads in it? i can't wait to try it."
also on tuesday, google began hosting a three-day off-the-record confab called "zeitgeist '05: the google partner forum," with 400 invitees, including prominent members of the mainstream media.
zdnet
