In the old days, the start of the web crawling activities tend to categorize content on web — Yahoo started that way. Then the volume of web contents grew tremendously, no one could really follow and no single company could afford spending enough manpower on categorizing each web sites pop into the web world. And so Google borned with the type of simplest single textbox interface — that you just type in whatever you got to grab from the web, who cares which category that thing has to fall in.
Google was big, back then it stormed into the search engine world and creating a huge cake of ads market place. All kind of texts are crawled, stored into its thousands of servers. Text could be stored and searched. All right, why not image? Why not published books? Why not video? Oops, there are more and more to be revealed on how we’re going to defined the content generated by human being. Why not you define it?
Here’s come Google Base. It said:
Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we’ll host and make searchable online.
Now you have the influence, you defined it.
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