Friday, November 18, 2005

Google custom meta-feeds are on the way.

If it wasn't already obvious, it is now. RSS is changing the face of the web....

RSS and Google Base: Google Feeds Off The Web

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Google...you're beautiful. stop it.

Google is releasing products at an impressive pace. Today's is Google Base.

I can't help but be impressed.

From Google's PR

Google Base is an extension of Google’s existing content collection efforts such as our traditional web crawl system, as well as Google Sitemaps, Google Print and Google Video – all which enable content owners to easily make their information searchable via Google.

Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online. Among the types of information you can make searchable by Google are cars, jobs, news articles, products, reviews, and wanted ads.

From Business 2.0 Blog

Yes, it's a Craigslist killer. But it's also much more.

There is a whole dark Web out there that Google's bots cannot crawl, so they want you to be helpful, please, and become unpaid data-entry clerks to fill up their index. Why would you do this?

It seems obvious that people will do this. User driven content continues to drive the growth of the web. Social networks, people sharing content, products, services you name it. It's all about having tools that make it easy to publish and search to help people find what they're looking for.

When you have a little time read this ariticle written in 2002 by Paul Ford.
August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

Monday, November 14, 2005

Google on a roll

I just read this great article on Google, I've been impressed in the past by what they are doing. This article opened my eyes a little bit more to the real impact that Google is having on the world. Enjoy. What Lurks in Its Soul?