Google Launches Google Base
Google has opened up its massive server farms to host user-submitted content that it will index and make searchable. The company opened up Google Base to users today.it allows users to contribute online and offline content to the search engine, and add attributes to the content’s description to help others find it. Depending on relevance, submitted items could appear across Google properties like Froogle or Google Local. That would seem to support the anticipated release of Google’s classifieds service, by giving users an easy way to upload and tag products or services. One item in the Base FAQ also shows that the service is ready to work with classifieds: