tech.cybernetnews.com — We removed the search box from the Base homepage. In its place we’ve added more examples of popular and interesting item types — like car parts and filmography — to let Google Base providers get a sense of the wide variety of data they can post on Base. You can still search all the items on Base from your Active Items dashboard.
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joshoSep 21, 2006
I disagree with honds; more often than not these blog articles that link to the real topic or article do nothing but provide a weak summary and some commentary.But, a summary is provided by the description of the link, and commentary is provided by digg users. The actual service being mentioned should be the focus, not repetitive and trite commentary by some random blogger.It's annoying when there's a video digg, but it links to some random blog that has the video embedded from YouTube or Google Video. This stuff is poor for the user. I'm pretty sick of the proxy blog spam crap, but that's just me.
hondsSep 21, 2006
@ joshoI completely agree, blog spam via videos as you explained should be seen for what it is (unecessary spam). However, this blogs redeeming quality is the side by side comparison image. That is new content not found in the link to Google Base. The blogger indeed created new content and didn't just summarize. The image comparison is what makes it not spam. I for one found the image helpful and a simple text description in the digg description would not, in my opinion, have done as much justice. This will be my last post on the topic though, I don't want to start a war or people calling me troll or what not. Just my two sense. Cry wolf too many times and when there really is a wolf... well you know the story. (replace "wolf" with "spam")
xilonSep 21, 2006
I have never even heard of it until now... I was like "since when does Google have so much crap on their homepage? Ohhh it's not the homepage...", I marked the article as inaccurate. If you go to the google homepage you have a search box and little else... it still easy to search especially with firefox.
christiancadeoSep 22, 2006
So how do you define the threshold? Should it be based off yours? Or should it be based off mine?