Google Base - Classifieds Beta

Posted on October 28, 2005
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Google wants to open the classifieds to the users, and let them “manage” it (algorithmically of course) by their aggregate postings - this is the fundamental insight into Google’s new service, Google Base, a beta test of post-it-yourself classifieds, launched on Tuesday in beta form.

The Google blog itself highlights this great insight into Google’s own purposes: best interpretation of Google’s intent with the classifieds beta

Hit that link for sure, but the quote was to this effect:
“Google Classifieds - Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch declared that Google would be launching a classified listing service today.
This is particularly interesting because Google seems to be saying, ‘Screw scraping content from all the online classified providers. We’ll empower our own users to dictate the content that’s on Google and manage the whole process themselves.’
If they launch job listings, how long will it take employers to jump the Good Ship Monster and list their openings on Google and leverage the power of the world’s most powerful information provider … for FREE?”

This beautiful snippet incorporates some upstream thought from John Cheeseman:
Cheeseman - google classifieds
Hit these links to explore the stories - for us the most wonderful insight is the Google blog presentation, which seems so true to the Google ultimate aim: to have the world take over itself.

It’s coming, stay tuned.

NOTE - we’ll write this story up better if you want us to, but you’ll have to add your comments to get that to happen :)

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2 Responses to “Google Base - Classifieds Beta”

  1. » Google’s Real Goal  InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel on October 30th, 2005 8:54 pm

    […] Hunter and Associates has a great line explaining Google’s goal better than the official “categorize the world’s information” company line. To reword their saying, it is to “Enable the world to take over itself”. I really like that. […]

  2. Administrator on October 30th, 2005 9:44 pm

    CLARIFICATION from Hunter and Associates
    The website we cite in this post as being the Google offical blog is not so, it is in fact the vastly more readable and informative Blog News Channel, please click their link in the Comment above to immerse in a sea of information, analysis, and pertinence.

    For the record, the official Google blog’s story about this tells the world less than nothing and can be found here:
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/rumor-of-day.html

    A screenshot of the Google Base page during its brief public appearance is here:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirson/55908013/

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