03-23-2006, 05:18 PM
Quote:Philipp Lenssen sees this as another step toward Google Base directly competing with eBay:
Instead of the searcher seeing eBay AdWords for particular products, Google cuts the middle-man here. And this is the point when it becomes even more interesting for people to push their products into Google Base... because all of a sudden your products might be seen by non-developers. Sure, Google Base isn't eBay yet, but it's getting a few steps closer...
It is getting closer to eBay Motors, certainly. A search for Honda Odyssey, the popular minivan, brings up a similar set of search boxes allowing the user to look for an automobile by location, make, and model.
full article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnew...earch.html
Quote:Over the past 24 hours American & English users of Google have been reporting sightings of a Google Base search box which appears above the main web results when performing specific Google searches.
One example is the search on Google for homes for sale in which a lot of Google users are being served the Google Base Refine your search for homes for sale box. The move is a mix of local and niche search by Google, which is hosting the search result content in the reality feeds indexed and updated using the Google Base system.
full article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3164