TulipTools Internet Business Owners and Online Sellers Community - Google Gives Peek at Classified Ad Service

Quote:Google Inc. has unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be a looming expansion into classified advertising -- a free service that might antagonize some of the Internet search engine's biggest customers, including online auctioneer eBay Inc.

Screen shots of the experimental service, dubbed "Google Base," appeared on several Web sites Tuesday shortly after the legions of people who dissect the online search engine leader's every move discovered a link to a page inviting people to list things like a used car for sale, a party planning service and current events.

Google confirmed the development of the service a few hours after taking down the link.

full article: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/051025/google_cl...html?.v=11

Quote:EBay Falls on Concern That Google May Soon Add Online Auctions

Shares of EBay Inc., the world's largest Internet auctioneer, fell as much as 5.6 percent on concern Google Inc. may soon introduce a new feature that allows users to sell products online.

full article: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=azpW9Z66pIYw

Finally, Google denies they are planning to start a classifieds site:

Quote:Rumor of the day

10/25/2005 05:02:00 PM

You may have seen stories today reporting on a new product that we're testing, and speculating about our plans. 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. We think it's an exciting product, and we'll let you know when there's more news.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

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they are they aren't auction classified not Big Grin

Quote:Google's database could enable new web-based applications

The mystery Google project called Google Base is likely to be something very different from the Ebay competitor...

It is more likely that Google is planning to create a vast database for all kinds of information that software developers can use to power their applications...

Google Base could do for so-called structured data what blogs did for the publishing industry: make it intuitively simple for anyone to create one...

full article: http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/21448...oogle-base

another article on Google's classified ambitions:

Quote:Craigslist represents the low hanging fruit for Google. While bourgeoise civic life in its home town of San Francisco is unimaginable without Craigslist - it's the city's scrappy noticeboard for everything from accommodation to quickie knee-tremblers - the operation has little foothold beyond the coastal United States. And it has an Achilles heel.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/google_base/

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another article on Google's classified ambitions:

Quote:Craigslist represents the low hanging fruit for Google. While bourgeoise civic life in its home town of San Francisco is unimaginable without Craigslist - it's the city's scrappy noticeboard for everything from accommodation to quickie knee-tremblers - the operation has little foothold beyond the coastal United States. And it has an Achilles heel.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/google_base/
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I luv luv luv Craigslist! Heeeee! Love4

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Damn, there goes my plan to become a google base pimpette. :twistedevil: