googlesystem.blogspot.com — Google doesn't like to do small things. When I saw the new interface for searching Google Base, it seemed to be the perfect answer for a Computer World story that said: "Google to boost product search in time for holiday season".
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52teaseDec 12, 2006
You just don't understand the concept behind Google Base, do you? This is a TOTALLY FREE marketplace for the mom and pop shop to make their wares available to a much larger audience. They don't even take an affiliate cut of the sales they send your way. This seems much more egalitarian than the other shopping aggregator sites that currently exist.
52teaseDec 12, 2006
Maybe because it's NOT the blog interface. You've been marked as lame!(of course, you've obviously just realized that yourself and pulled your own statement. At least you realize you're lame.)
Closed AccountDec 12, 2006
O FFS DIGG! MISPLACED AGAIN!Bury - another post in the wrong place at the right time!
chrono13Dec 12, 2006
@thefreshbeatsReal innovation and breakthroughs usually come from two or more major companies competing over many years.Monopolies are no fun, harmful to their controlled market and in general stifle innovation and lead to inflated prices and various lock-ins that further cement the monopolies hold on their given markets.Big business is not bad. Big business is the reason you live in a manner well beyond what kings and queens lived in long ago.Corrupt businesses, and more aptly, corrupt government (mine... the USA) that allow for predatory actions that are harmful to customers and sometimes harmful to every single citizen of that country is the problem.Hypothetically imagine that there was a very expensive, long, and complex court trial against the largest, and in many ways, the most damaging monopoly in recent history. Now imagine in this trial if the CEO lies under oath, video tape evidence is faked, and in the end... it is clear that the company is guilty of massive anti-trust and years of harm to its own customers, unlawful harm to its competitors, overpricing, sub-standard products designed first to lock out competition even to the lack of security and further harm of its customers.Imagine then that it is not only in the best interest of the citizens of your country, the consumers of these products, but also the entire world and the future security of information and technology that this company be split in two. This would allow the company to keep it's monopoly position, but with the least harm to the company or customers, limit this monopoly's ability to prevent competition and limit its ability to harm its customers and the industry in which it operates as a whole.You would imagine that it would be simple. Split the company in two. But this corrupt government overturned the best interests, overturned the legal, and rightful decision. Because of greed and corruption. A free market sounds wonderful in theory. But it doesn't take long for one company, without laws, or at least with enough money that the laws no longer apply to it, to begin to crush all competition and then this single company is the only market. It then buys the market area and bans competition.Corrupt governments let this happen. Then refuse to fix it. A well regulated market, where each company has to abide by a set of rules that says that they will not break basic laws or do massive harm to its customers, is a free market. A market where competition is ensured.We don't have such a "free market". Our "free market" is owned by a half-dozen companies that define the rules and define which laws will apply to them, and which laws will apply only to those who would attempt to compete with them. In our free market, owned by these companies, competition is illegal. That is the nature of an unregulated free market.
carltonsmithDec 12, 2006
Google can offer it for free because they have been creative in finding revenue streams outside of charging the end user, or even the vendor in cases like these. They found a superior way to do business that benefits both the vendor and the consumer and is supported by ad revenue. Cry me a river for other companies with an inferior business model. If they want to compete they should get creative and find alternative revenue streams, like Google does.
thefreshbeatsDec 12, 2006
Nicely put, chrono13. It's nice to see an educated response! I was afraid for a moment that I'd need to abandon my argument with a moon-base comment!
bobothnDec 12, 2006
@VulcanMikeso Google has a smarter way of doing something and they should be stopped because there smart idea might squash competition. i am sorry but who here is stifling creativity the monopolies or you?Also as far as walmart being bad for communities i call bull s**t. i was pore growing up and there were times that if there wasn't a walmart to buy close from dirt cheap I wouldn't have had any thing to wear. also compare its job benefits and pay to a mom and pop store. walmarts pay sucks yes but it is better than most other retail stores.
mrgono3Dec 12, 2006
@AzurWhy would you think thats a Haiku?
ace77Dec 12, 2006Submitter
The blog describes the changes to the interface, the home page no.