16 November 2005
GoogleBase is up - bleh
Posted by Ryan Sarver under: Technology .
GoogleBase is finally up and all I have to say is, bleh. The current interface has taken their “less is more” approach to far and it is just plain ugly. In its current form, I just don’t see users who want to create a job posting or post a recipe online to think of going to GoogleBase first. This is where targeted consumer sites work best. If I want to post a job, I go to Monster or Hot Jobs where I know it will get the most visibility.
The concept of a structured data store is a good idea, but they need novel ways (think APIs) of getting content into it from 3rd party providers. The providers would be incentivized since they know that their content will be getting indexed properly on Google and in the end they would still be the broker for the service, thus retaining their users and possibly gaining new ones.
