Google Base can potentially challenge eBay and Craigslist
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Google Base can potentially challenge eBay and Craigslist
Google has confirmed that they are soon planning to launch a new service, which would make it a lot easier to get listed into the Google search services. In addition, they also managed to accidentally release some parts of this upcoming service to be called Google Base. It is expected to be an auction site enabling people to put up practically anything up for sale and search. It can potentially become a relevant market competitor to existing services like eBay and Craigslist.
Some sites on the internet are showing screenshots of the service they managed to take when it was briefly online. The screenshots claim that the service would be a database consisting of “your content” that’s free to contribute. It is also apparently designed to be linked to Froogle, which is the Google’s online shopping search engine.
In addition, there are also possibilities of it linked to Google’s other services like Google Local, the combination Google mapping and localized search results. The search engine giant apparently has more of less confirmed that the service is under development and the screenshots online are more or less accurate. No more detail was revealed except for a small Blog entry on the Google Blog.
Google had sometime back had announced that they were indeed planning to launch an online payment system (apparently something what eBay does with PayPal). However, they also said that it was not likely to compete with eBay’s PayPal. This might be the time when we would be seeing the launch of that system too. Bloggers claim that this service is going to be called Google Wallet.
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Tags: Craigslist, eBay, Google, Google Base, Search, Search Engine, Search Engine News
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Will be very happy if someone come up with good idea how to challenge eBay. eBay is very tough, banning people without hard reasons, non respecting people, but this is not only reason there is hundreds more. EBay know very well, the members have no choice, no other popular auctions at the moment available, and that’s it why eBay can do whatever they want.
Hope challenger come soon, I’m sure millions of users will be happy to support them, and I am one of them.
Thanks
In another forum, someone commented that this is a pre-emptive strike at Microsoft’s attempts to get us to store everything locally, and others have speculated that Google Base will put Craig’s List, Backpack and even eBay out of business.
I recently started a website to talk about Google Base.
Oracle’s Larry Ellison has been telling anyone who would listen that people can’t wait to divulge all their private information and trust some faceless corporation with limited liability and a stable of lawyers to keep it for them. He’s a huge proponent of computers without local storage. I think the people he knows and the people I know don’t know each other.
I remember when I could store my operating system, word processor program, all of my utilities, and all of my document files on a single 5.25″ floppy disk (360k). It was just as well that everything fit on one floppy, because many of the computers we had on our desks back then had just a floppy drive (no hard drive).
It wasn’t Bill Gates who drove the demand for ever larger hard drives; ordinary users did, although some of the blame (or credit) could go to programmers whose code was (is) woefully inefficient. Back when a 10M hard drive was the best you could buy, people queued up to lay down big bucks for them because people (at least the folks I know) LIKE to have their data physically present where they can control it. Witness the evolution of flash drives.
Yes Google is wonderful because it helps us all find what we’re looking for quickly and efficiently. But I don’t see folks (the ones I know) being ready to upload straight from their digital cameras to Google Base then deleting the files from their cameras. I predict that hard drives will continue to get larger rather than disappearing from our desktop computers.
Hopefully google will have something set up similiar to the half.com model that was in place before ebay took that site over.