Google Base - another beta, more rabid speculation

Google Inc has partially launched a database-driven search service that allows classified ads to be posted, exciting its fans in the media and blogosphere, many of whom promptly predicted that eBay's days are numbered. Oh, and that SQL is history too.

Screenshots of a service called Google Base started circulating after bloggers who closely track the company discovered that the domain base.google.com temporarily resolved to a landing page for the pre-launch service.

The service was partially live again at time of writing, but had quite a lot of dead links and didn't appear to fully function.

"Google Base is Google's database into which you can add all types of content. We'll host your content and make it searchable online for free," the landing page reads. "You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base..."

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