Monday, April 10, 2006
The new classified
Have a book to sell? Or want to purchase a new CD? Better still wish to make friends, post a resume or even get married? Here is the new online classified that hosts your items for free.
Time for craiglist and ebay and the Indian bazee (now purchased by ebay) to watch out. Search engine major, Google has now launched Google base, that is hosting all such items for free.
The beta service, which was launched last week promised to be another application that would shake the online market. You can create an account and start uploading items that would be searchable. It is not just about items, it could be articles, coupons, information about functions and even referral services.
Examples of what is already available on Google base includes description of your party planning service, a journalist writing articles on current events from your website, listing of your used car for sale and even a database of protein structures. As the google blog says, you could browse job listings to learn that Ernst and Young has 62 job openings in San Francisco and 147 openings in New York, or that there are more results for Chinese chicken recipes than there are Greek ones.
You can attach attributes to all items that you uploaded so that searching becomes easier.
Initially, Google base has been flooded with personal pages, with youngsters from all over advertising themselves .
It seems to be a service right from blogosphere, but it could start using the tags and attributes to create a huge searchable database that becomes a boon for advertisers. In 2000, Yahoo has launched a Pay Direct feature, an online payment system, which was later shut down. However till date Google has not stated whether it wishes to launch such a payment system.
For starters, you can go to http://base.google.com/ and create your own account.Click on post your own item and start your own classified service.
Time for craiglist and ebay and the Indian bazee (now purchased by ebay) to watch out. Search engine major, Google has now launched Google base, that is hosting all such items for free.
The beta service, which was launched last week promised to be another application that would shake the online market. You can create an account and start uploading items that would be searchable. It is not just about items, it could be articles, coupons, information about functions and even referral services.
Examples of what is already available on Google base includes description of your party planning service, a journalist writing articles on current events from your website, listing of your used car for sale and even a database of protein structures. As the google blog says, you could browse job listings to learn that Ernst and Young has 62 job openings in San Francisco and 147 openings in New York, or that there are more results for Chinese chicken recipes than there are Greek ones.
You can attach attributes to all items that you uploaded so that searching becomes easier.
Initially, Google base has been flooded with personal pages, with youngsters from all over advertising themselves .
It seems to be a service right from blogosphere, but it could start using the tags and attributes to create a huge searchable database that becomes a boon for advertisers. In 2000, Yahoo has launched a Pay Direct feature, an online payment system, which was later shut down. However till date Google has not stated whether it wishes to launch such a payment system.
For starters, you can go to http://base.google.com/ and create your own account.Click on post your own item and start your own classified service.
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