Google Base to replace the WWW

If anyone has missed the announcement, Google Base is an upcoming repository of everything, that supports schemas for objects, user created attributes, bulk uploads and future integration with search. Here are some screenshots [1, 2, 3].

Isn’t this a centralized, google-owned, semantic web anyone? Something that the RDF guys, including Tim Berners-Lee would sweat over and throw shit at. If anybody, Google may have the potential to pull it off, although I’d hate to see that happen. The monopoly would be far beyond Microsoft, it would wipe out Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, everything.

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Posted by Artemi Krymski on October 26th, 2005 | No Comments