Google Classifieds Coming?

[grobe]

"An online classified service being tested by Google set off intense speculation today after a Web site for the service was accidentally made public and discovered by a computer programmer on Monday.

The service, named Google Base, which was accessible at base.google.com, described itself as: "Google's database into which you can add all types of content. We'll host your content and make it searchable online for free.""
[nytimes.com...]

[zCat]

There's an arstechnica article here:
[arstechnica.com...]

I wonder how google is going to prevent massive data spamming?

[shri]

Anyone remember this?

[robinsloan.com...]

[JoaoJose]

Yep. This had already crossed my mind and now it's for real...not very good for me as my main site is basically a free classified ads database...

Basically Google's founders were smart, they went for what the growing internet needed - data organization.

So we all can say bye bye to video and photo galleries, classified ads, etc websites....

They'll chunck everything on their system and have the search engine as a giant doorway with google related products on the top spots...

I really don't blame them I would do the same.

[fischermx]

Yikes!
I have a classifieds software under development right now.
I think I'll have to do some arranges ... :(

Where will google end? They will be ending up being "the" internet. I really don't like that.
Are they gonna still crawling, indexing and showing eBay's, CraigLists listing, etc?

[Staffa]

They will be ending up being "the" internet.

Yep, if they don't fall flat on their face before that by continuing to insult people's intelligence.