base.google.com is live, incase you missed it.

Submitted by kebernet on Wed, 11/16/2005 - 14:00

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And it is just friggin pimp.

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RE: base.google.com is live, incase you missed it.

Submitted by atrox (not verified) on Wed, 11/16/2005 - 15:04.

Yeah its all about classified ads right! Whooohooo! NOT. I cannot find an API to retrieve records though. Surely it exists and I just dont see it in the FAQ. I mean the insertion is there but the extraction wont be so cool if its just through the base interface. My take is that any web app, any web service, anything, should be able to make common API calls to base (put/update/get) to store content in a customized manner by "item type" and attribution. If THAT is the idea then this is mega revolutionary change the world type stuff. If only can GET from base interface then it - not so much (but it will be full on useful, not a crippled get, at least if not now then soon and if not Google then Yahoo!, etc). Use the base as a "content repository" for your web app, or web service, or local machine with net access app, on and on. Classified ads, whatever, sure it can do that TOO but thats not the point, putzes.

RE: base.google.com is live, incase you missed it.

Submitted by atrox (not verified) on Wed, 11/16/2005 - 15:12.

"Searchers on Google Base, Google, Froogle and Google Local who click on your items will be directed to your website if you already have one. If not, we will create hosted pages for you." See thats not quite what I want to use it for, I want to use it as a content repository and specific content managed on my site and the "backend" be google base. Am I crazy here or is that what this thing should be, or maybe already is?

RE: base.google.com is live, incase you missed it.

Submitted by jeepmutt (not verified) on Thu, 11/17/2005 - 10:02.

you are crazy. Dunno about the rest :)

RE: base.google.com is live, incase you missed it.

Submitted by atrox (not verified) on Thu, 11/17/2005 - 13:25.

Cooper noted that although the docs and the "front end" are rough right now this thing still has lots of potential. Maybe they will want to control the "front end" but this is just a long term better way to get stuff in the index correctly (main index, so people arent using base to "get" they are just using google). Also things are categorized such that if Google wants to start "autos.google.com" with a nice "get" frontend then its a done deal in a matter of hours ;). Watch out world, here comes more Google.