Google Base: All Your Base Are Belong To Us

They tried really hard to avoid that stigma by the way, when I entered my keywords they would not let me misspell anything, including my last name. Way to go with the strict testing guys.

I’ll admit it, it took me a few minutes to figure out how this could ever be relevant or useful to someone and I think I got it. The Goolge Base service is basically a huge file sharing network. You can upload text, pictures, different objects and make them instantly searchable. Step back a little bit from the microscope and look at the big picture here: They are offering to hold content for up to 30 days and make it accessible and searchable. You can store a paper you are working for and share it with your coleagues. You can share your recipes or organize resources with a meeting.

Thats at least the dream I hope they had. With some access controls this could be an interesting response to Microsoft’s SharePoint technology that has a radically different approach but accomplishes the very same thing – intelligent, accessible file sharing.

Oh, and there is money in this. I haven’t said this in a loooong time but expect Google to make money with this project.