Google base beta goes live
More from Google today — the search company announced the beta release of its Google Base service.
Google Base is essentially a public database. Everyone from large companies to plain old everyday people can add content to it. Plus, you can “tag up” your content. Add descriptive text, photos, diagrams, and other metadata that helps identify the entry within search results. Google is going to host the data and serve it up, and, if your database entry is especially helpful, Google will add it to the main Web search results pages.
The project is part of Google’s current strategy of collecting all of the data in the universe in one place. Maps, books, phone book data, recipes, you name it. I give Google five years before they are hosting every single song ever recorded as low-bitrate MP3 files. Well, probably not MP3s since they’d have to pay licensing, but the next version of whatever free codec is out there. Maybe Google will develop its own free audio codec. Or maybe they’ll just use FAAC.
