Google base: the killer app?
By li ding on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 at 11:08 am.Google base was announce at Nov 15, 2005. It lets users publishing their information in a Semantic Web way: (i) defining an instance of class; (ii)letting users creating and filling attribute-value pair (value in text though); (iii) letting users add keywords as tag; and (iv) allow bulk upload. I wonder if R. Guha is behind it. It is could be a killer app to web directory services, including classifieds like Craig’s List.
(source: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/11/google_to_go_ha.html)
UPDATE: Greg Yardley has evidence from a Microsoft blogger that the software giant is also targeting the online classified market with its new Freemont project.
I’m still hoping some improvement from its beta version:
(1) add the total of items at the front page like below (the number was collected as of today’s snapshot)
| blogs (1193) | coupons(697) | course schedules(467) | events and activities(687) | |||
| jobs(431077) | news and articles(2879) | people profiles(46676) | products(785) | |||
| recipes(20257) | reference articles(2280) | reviews(5302) | services(11827) | |||
| vehicles(78716) | wanted ads(27131) | rentals(31853) | comic books(27) |
(2) can I browse every item without being bound by 1000 items limit?
(3) what if many people have create many item types?
(4) can it recommend well-used attributes?
Ebiquity Blog
December 10th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
Good questions. I especially think (4) is important. If Google Base has the ability to recommend well-used attributes, we will be one step close to build ontologies by evolution.