04-21-2006, 08:40 AM
Quote:Many in the commerce business have been steadily getting their data uploaded to Google Base. You can find over a million products listed for Barnes and Noble alone, while online retailer Perfume County has 4,800 products in Google Base. When searching through Google Base you can also find products from Shop.com and Buy.com. In the midst of cars for sale, video game reviews and shortbread cookie recipes, Google Base seems to be quite popular with photographers who are selling their photos online...
While Google Base isn't marketed as an area to search and find items online, the reality is that one can be expect to see this highly organized data being distributed to Google search, Local or Froogle, and this has many uploading data now to be ready for when Google Base search results do hit mainstream searches in a standard (non-beta) format. For Google it is about content acquisition; but for e-commerce it still is all about making sure your products can be found by the consumers who are searching....
full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/tren...hp/3600466