The Soulpass Project

Google to me is practically synonymous with innovation. It’s as if they ignore what other companies are doing and just constantly try to roll out new ideas. Give it about a few months later and other sites like Yahoo! and MSN will be trying to keep up. Point in case: Google Maps comes out (followed by a sudden exitement about AJAX techonology). Now have a look at Yahoo!Maps and Microsoft’s Live.com Maps. It’s kind of upsetting that rather than doing much innovating these companies are just copying Google’s ideas. Microsoft went so far as to use a very similar AJAX system! Yahoo!’s uses flash (which I don’t think is much fun or as impressive as Google’s using AJAX).

Anyway, the point of this post is Google Base. I guess the aforementioned things will eventually be related since it’s only a matter of time before the concept is copied by another company.

It’s a simple database that anyone can utilize via the web! With Google’s philosophy and goal of cataloging knowledge and data, it’s no surprise that the user-provided data can in some cases be searched via certain Google searches. Users can enter any kind of data about things. First you choose a category, then you add items and choose your own attributes! It’s just like creating a regular database but it’s set up in a way where the average user can easily figure it out. If a predefined category is chosen then attributes are automatically added which makes it even easier. You can add images and AdWords as well.

I posted a “Swingline Stapler” as a test!

ALL YOUR GOOGLE BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

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