Google Base: dopo molti rumor le prime screenshot...

Finalmente si cominciano a scorgere in rete le prime immagini del tanto vociferato Google Base, che altro non è che un sistema di aste e vendite online messo in piedi dalla grande G di Mountain View.

Per il momento la raccolta piu' completa di immagini a riguardo di Google Base è stata postata on line da Caleb Eggensperger e qui sotto vi riporto le informazioni:

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• Program policies (“Posting is not permitted for the promotion of body parts or human remains.”)
• Terms of service (“By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the general public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish and otherwise use, with or without attribution such Content on Google services solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services.”)
• About (“[T]he Google Base interface is currently available only in English, English UK and German.”)
• Recipes, item view (There’s a “Payment” section to be seen here, as well as a small Google Maps inclusion. I’m not sure if a recipe is a standard or personalized item; Wouter Schut says the following item types can be selected; Course Schedules, Events and Activities, Housing, Jobs, News and Articles, People Profiles, Products, Reference Articles, Reviews, Services, Travel, Vehicles, and Wanted Ads.)
• Searching for recipes (Thumbnails are displayed along the Google Base search results; items can be sorted by different filters, like “Relevance"; there’s a “Report item” link below every item.)
• Login screen (A similar screen to what circulated around the web earlier already; below the login boxes we can see the “Are you a merchant or a webmaster, or do you have lots of stuff? Create multiple items with a bulk upload file” link.)
• Editing a recipe (Item values – here, quantity, calories, type, ingredient and so on – can be edited; labels can be attached; a free-text description can be written; also, an item expiration date can be set)
• Items overview (items have three different status flags: “draft”, “Processing - will be published soon”, and “Published.”)
• Uploading via Google Base and FTP (“[I]n order to successfully upload your file using FTP, you’ll need the FTP username and password that you set in Google Base.”)
• Editorial Guidelines (“No repeated and unnecessary punctuation or symbols . . . No excessive capitalization such as ’FREE’ . . . Check that you use correct spelling.”)

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Il sito dovrebbe essere http://base.google.com/ ma dopo essere stato attivo per un po' di tempo ora non è piu' raggiungibile ("Forbidden Error 403").

Allo stato attuale poi la cosa curiosa è che risultano, tra le altre cose, gia' registrati i seguenti domini:

- www.googlebase.com

Registrant:
 Google Inc.
 (DOM-1403691)
 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
 CA
 94043 US

   Domain Name: googlebase.com

 Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
 Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
 Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

   Administrative Contact:
 DNS Admin
 (NIC-1467103)
 Google Inc.
 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
 CA
 94043 US
 dns-admin@google.com +1.6502530000 Fax- +1.6506188571
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
 DNS Admin
 (NIC-1467103)
 Google Inc.
 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
 CA
 94043 US
 dns-admin@google.com +1.6502530000 Fax- +1.6506188571

   Created on..............: 2005-Jun-08.
   Expires on..............: 2007-Jun-08.
   Record last updated on..: 2005-Sep-06 14:59:40.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.GOOGLE.COM  
   NS2.GOOGLE.COM  
   NS3.GOOGLE.COM  
   NS4.GOOGLE.COM  

- www.googlebase.it

domain:      googlebase.it
org:         Google UK Limited
descr:       Carmelite, 50 Victoria Embankment
descr:       EC4Y 0DX London (EC)
admin-c:     KP159-ITNIC
tech-c:      TS7016-ITNIC
postmaster:  KP159-ITNIC
zone-c:      TS7016-ITNIC
nserver:     216.239.32.10 ns1.google.com
nserver:     216.239.34.10 ns2.google.com
nserver:     216.239.36.10 ns3.google.com
nserver:     216.239.38.10 ns4.google.com
mnt-by:      REGISTER-MNT
created:     20050620
expire:      20060620
source:      IT-NIC

person:      Karen Padham
address:     Karen Padham
address:     Carmelite, 50 Victoria Embankment
address:     EC4Y 0DX London (EC)
address:     GB
nic-hdl:     KP159-ITNIC
source:      IT-NIC

person:      Technical Services
address:     Register.it
address:     Italy
nic-hdl:     TS7016-ITNIC
mnt-by:      REGISTER-MNT
source:      IT-NIC

Ora come ora, pero', il Blog ufficiale di Google recita queste parole:
"You may have seen stories today reporting on a new product that we're testing, and speculating about our plans. Here's what's really going on. We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps. We think it's an exciting product, and we'll let you know when there's more news." Posted by Tom Oliveri, Product Marketing Manager

Non ci resta che attendere i nuovi sviluppi e capire quale sarà la contromossa di Ebay, il principale interessato a questa mossa (nonchè il piu' importante cliente di Google per quanto riguarda le inserizioni pubblicitarie...).

Per altre informazioni:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ (Blog Ufficiale di Google)
http://news.google.com/ (News sull'argomento)