Right,

Let's just get this clear – what the heck is google base?

I follow google to the bone, and understand every single service, apart from this one. A place to store information? I thought that's what the web was for.

At the moment, it looks pretty damn lame to me.

I know it's been out for ages – but that's the point... I still don't understand it.

it's a way to store labeled, attributed, specific information. it's also a way to submit certian types of information to google i.e. froogle data, business location (maps) data, etc. It's a way to use google purchases to sell stuff like ebay using google purchases. i've used it to find recipes several times.

It might be a form of cheap SEO (=getting your products into Google.com in the future). It might be some kinda eBay of the future...

Cool – so it's got potential for mass use.

Thanks for the explanation. Better than wikipedia.

yeah, but you can also use Froogle
froogle.google.com / shopping.google.com

> "yeah, but you can also use Froogle
froogle.google.com / shopping.google.com"

To be honest, i think froogle is lame. It just never finds what you want.

ha?
of course it does!

well, if youre searching for a hitman i doubt it will find something but i dunno... it works fine for me .. :/

=)

Yeah it's brilliant for general stuff. Like I'm sure "pc" returns thousands of lovely Dells (dont make me sick). But if you try searching for "Crucial 1GB PC3200 DDR400 Unbuffered", then, the story might be slightly different.

Feel free to prove me wrong: i haven't tried these queries yet =D

Mambo: I think results are not so bad after all.

Check it yourselves: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Crucial+1GB+PC3200+DDR400+Unbuffered&btnG=Search+Froogle

I did a search e.g. on Sun Servers, and i found e.g. a Sun 15K, that's a huge machine...