Geek and a Half

December 23rd, 2005 by Jake

I was surfing around and found something new from Google: Google Base. From what I can see, I think it allows you to upload different items, like housing, recipes, vehicles, jobs, products, reviews, or you can create your own category.

I haven’t uploaded anything yet, but this appears to be something similar to eBay (but much less extensive), because if you go to your preferences, you can change your shipping location, payment preferences, item expiration, all sorts of things. Could this be Google’s attempt to overtake the online auction industry? I highly doubt it, the word ‘eBay’ has already made it into our current society, appearing in commercials, and even feature-length films. It’s nice, however, that Google is offering an alternative if you don’t want to use eBay’s complex selling system, and from a name you can trust, Google.

On a different, unrelated note, I’ve added a few moe blog categories, and I’ll also be adding images to my blog (thanks for the inspiration, Jeff!), because, well, I guess up until this point, I was too lazy to type out a simple div tag. Oh well, enjoy.