Google Base is Live – Let the Blog Posts Commence

First off, read Google’s description of its’ latest product:

Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle, Google Base and Google Local.

I know Google said that the payment tool it came out with before was not to be developed as an eBay/PayPal killer but with the addition of Base – I can’t see that NOT happening.

Windows Desktop Search Rids Itself of the MSN Toolbar…finally.

Well, Windows Desktop Search has finally come out of the MSN shadow. For months, you’ve been able to download a beta of the new search application from Microsoft but only if you downloaded the MSN Toolbar. While WDS is a fantastic product (I don’t use that word lightly, either) I absolutely hated the fact that I had to attach that God-forsaken toolbar to my computer just to get a decent, yet thorough, Outlook/Windows search on my PC.

I think Windows Desktop Search is a stellar application and I highly recommend you give it a try since you would now be free of that MSN crap. The taskbar toolbar has saved me an incredible amount of time already. Oh, one more thing…you’re going to have to download the MSN Toolbar anyways if you want a desktop search toolbar in Outlook/Windows Explorer. That does suck, indeed, but I’m content using the aforementioned taskbar toolbar.