This article is in four parts:
- What Is Google Base? How To Upload Content to Google Base
- How To Edit Items in Google Base
- Upload Google Base Content-Google Base Dashboard-Google Base Bulk Uploads
- Google Base First Impressions-What Is The Point of Google Base?
Initial Thoughts About Google Base
Firstly, what you upload to Google Base won't always stay there. Google Base content will eventually filter over into regular Google listings - for instance, your ad for a Stickley kitchen table might eventually show up in Froogle.There's some serious potential here for deep content searches. For instance, say your uncle has kept a painfully detailed database of every cornflake that looks like the Virgin Mary for the last twenty years. He can upload that to Google Base, and other people can find it. Right now the Google Base search process is a bit wonky, but hopefully more search refinements are coming soon.
Show me the money.What's Google's point in all this? Well, you can use Google Adwords on all Google Base pages. Eventually, I would think that Google AdSense might be used here as well. Talk about targeted ads - take my Virgin Mary cornflake collection, for example.
Google Base - What Is The Point of Google Base?
From the Google Base FAQ: "Remember, our goal is to organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible, and "the world's information" certainly includes almost anything you might wish to contribute."Along with this lofty goal, I think that Google Base could be a direct challenge to eBay and Craig's List; along with the very real potential to just be the biggest content provider on the Web. Think about it: if enough people uploaded their content - for free - to Google Base, Google would not only be the biggest search engine in the world, but the largest sole holder of user-submitted content. I can't quite wrap my head around the potential implications of that.
