Google Base: Now What Do We Do?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Steve Outing: Google Base: Now What Do We Do?, Poynter November 18, 2005

Google Base has launched and is sending a ripple of concern throughout the news industry, as in one fell swoop Google could obsolete their classifieds department. This advice, though, is sound and probably reasonable: "An all-powerful Google probably has the capability to wipe out other classifieds -- but I doubt that's the company's intention". More...