Mountain View, Calif. - Following weeks of speculation, Google, the
Mountain View-based search engine giant, said that it has officially
launched Google Base, a new service allowing users to post classified
ads, similar to Craigslist or eBay, as well as almost any information that
they wish to have indexed by Google. "We encourage you to submit your
item, whether it's your store inventory, collection of original poetry, or
research paper on cancer receptors," the company said on its web site.
The free listing service is also currently free of advertisements.
Depending on relevance, ads posted on Google Base will also show up in
searches on Google, Froogle and Google Local. "We saw there were large
instances of information we didn't have and couldn't make searchable,"
Salar Kamangar, Google's vice president for product management, told
The New York Times. "We realized that we could make it possible for
people to make information on information available."
http://base.google.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/technology/16google.htm