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This can be an interesting turn – perhaps Google will have some affiliate program?!

I started a new forum where we can all discuss Google Base. I hope that you all join me in this!

http://www.googlebasetalk.com

Google will crash all the classifieds and other listing services ONLY because it has larger user base and more money to support it. I can see small businesses running after it initially but the situation will turn 180 degrees from the expected one. Originally listing might attract more clients but over the time everyone will be there so being on the Google will not provide any advantage however not being on Google will almost certainly ruin your business. Original hype over more customers will help to build a monster that will control information sharing. Froogle is quite similar but not to that extend. I only hope for people posting tons of garbage on it making it useless and hence harmless to others.

And will we have access through web services?

I suppose it’s time to go back and take a look at Paul Ford’s classic post
“August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web”!

According to several reports including this article by Kevin Delaney on the WSJ online, Google’s classified offering that I eluded to in the September 30, 2005 post titled Google To Unleash Classified Ad Product on the Somewhat Frank will soon

- I think people associate “massive distribution” with Google and everyone wants massive distribution. Everyone with something to sell wants it to reach as many people as it can. That’s why most efforts to dethrone eBay have failed miserably.

- In the end, if you’re going to do any sort of efficient querying, the data has to be centralized — even in the edge case (unless there’s a breakthrough hovering just above the horizon that I’m not privy to). The difference between the two then really comes down to inputting the data directly to the central repository or inputing it on an edge node and then having it synced to a central database at a later time. This begs the question: Are edge solutions really edge or are they simply centralized with delay?

- Let’s say Six Apart and Blogger add structured edge data services (as well as some yet-to-be-announced services) and people can now sell things on their blog in a structured way. Even if you disregard the above statement, is the edge really “edge” — after all, it is still being aggregated/centralized via the blog hosting service — just in smaller name spaces. That makes the data collection easier for the aggregators, but it still takes you back to my second point. If you’re going to approach the true “edge” condition, then data almost needs to be stored on individual computers. Storing it using any aggregator of any kind (blog hosting service or other) is, by definition, not edge.

- There is definitely a psychological difference (in my mind anyway) when a piece of data is on my blog vs. when I enter the data into a database directly. I own and control the structured data equally in *both* instances, but when it’s in my blog, I can wrap an unstructured context around it, give it more personality, generate some amount of ad-sense revenue from it, and drive more traffic to my blog. The question is, is the psychological difference enough? Will people just put a link to their blog in Google Base along with the text “visit my blog for more info!” ? Or perhaps people will do both if the proper tools come along.

That said, I think Google Base could fail if a) they are unable to control fraud (also a problem on the edge) and 2) the UI just plains sucks. I’m not saying it will suck, but if it does, then that’s a problem. I could be wrong about this, but I think Google has a better chance of controlling fraud because they’re centralized. They can easily ask for a credit card number of some such thing to verify identity. That could be a little more difficult on the edge.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, down the road, many of the edge players aggregate the edge data and also export it out to Google Base (and ebay and …) and thus centralizes it on behalf of the user in order to maximize distribution. Or, on the flip side, Google can spider the edge and make that data available via their central database system. Either way, with Google in the game, it makes pure-edge a much more challenging proposition — but that’s the fun of it, right?

Of course, I’m hoping you have something up your sleeve to prove me wrong…

- Scott

Kevin

I’m curious to see how Google keeps out proprietary information, spam, or other undesirable stuff, though. I can see the headlines now - “Google serves up complete genome of 1918 influenza virus,” etc.