Google Base
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Google Base (originally at base.google.com - site defunct) was a 2005-era attempt to structure website data using XML for duplicate upload to Google's servers.
Use As Microformats Research
Google Base had a number of schemas for structuring website data which were used as part of research in to existing formats towards the development of new microformats per the microformats process:
Google Base items in general including:
- Course schedules
- Events
- Jobs
- Housing
- News and articles
- People profiles
- Products
- Recipe
- Research studies and publications
- Reviews
- Services
- Travel
- Vehicles
- Want_ads
Historical Articles
- 2005-11-15 Google Official Blog: First Base (launch announcement)
- 2005-11-15 TechCrunch: Google Base Launched. Yuck.
- 2005-11-16 michael parekh: ON WHY GOOGLE BASE IS A REALLY BIG DEAL
- 2005-11-16 ZDNet: Will Google Base be the world's largest XML database?
- 2005-11-20 ReadWriteWeb: Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 14-20 Nov 2005: Google Base - the good, the bad and the ugly
- ...
- 2011-04-05 ReadWriteWeb: Whatever Happened To... Google Base