Google Base was a

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provided by

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which allowed users to add content such as text, images, and structured information in formats such as

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, Excel, RTF, or

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. Google Base was launched in 2005 and downgraded to Google Merchant Center in September 2010. If Google found user-added content relevant, submitted content appeared on its shopping search engine,

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or even the web search. The piece of content could then be labeled with attributes like the ingredients for a recipe or the camera model for

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. Because information about the service was leaked before public release, it generated much interest in the

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community prior to release. Google subsequently responded on their blog with a
official statement
:"You may have seen stories today reporting on a new product that we're testing, and speculating about our plans. Here's what's really going on. We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google

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. We think it's an exciting product, and we'll let you know when there's more news." Files could be uploaded to the Google Base servers by browsing your computer or the web, by various

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methods, or by

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coding. Online tools were provided to view the number of downloads of the user's files, and other performance measures. On December 17, 2010, it was announced that Google Base's API is deprecated in favor of a set of new APIs known as Google Shopping APIs.

External links

Google Base

About Google Base

Official Google Base Blog

Google Base API Mashups

References

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See also

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