I put off Search Engine Day when I saw the rumors about Google Base flying around the Net this past Monday evening and Tuesday. Here’s a synopsis of some of the posts to blogs and other coverage that I saw, ending with confirmation on the news from Google’s Blog.
The Search Engine Herald: the news of search: “Google allowed yesterday a limited access to it’s Google Base homepage (Screenshot), and rumors started spreading around as to it’s purpose.” Go to the post to access the screenshot.
When I went to the page from that post, here’s the description I saw on the page that I was briefly able to access.
“Post your items on Google.
Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free.
Examples of items you can find in Google Base:
• Description of your party planning service
• Articles on current events from your website
• Listing of your used car for sale
• Database of protein structures
You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle and Google Local.”
Here’s the link I went to – it probably won’t be available, so here’s a screenshot.
But what is it a screenshot of? What is Google Base going to do?
Here’s what Blog Herald said in an article called Blogcritics.org: Breaking News: Google To Launch Google Base on the 25th: “Google will launch a new open source database called Google Base, according to a thread at Search Engine Watch (screenshot available here). According to the Google Base main page, Google will allow users to upload content information into their database and allow users to search for information in Google’s database.” (You’ll have to click through to their site to access the screenshot – I don’t want to take up anyone else’s bandwidth by linking directly from here.
By the end of the day, Google had given confirmation:
Official Google Blog: Rumor of the day: “Here’s what’s really going on. We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps.”
And that’s the reality, straight from the horse’s mouth.
Ta! I’ll be around late tomorrow to bring the belated search engine day of news.
Tags: free traffic :: website promotion :: Google Base :: Google
