By Alison Bjerke, Google Base OperationsIf you’ve ever needed help with a bulk upload, you may have corresponded with one of our dedicated Google Base Coordinators. Even if you haven’t, you might not be surprised to know that there’s a team working beh…
By Jen Peng, Google Base OperationsAmong the many item types that you can submit to Google Base, we often see the same errors occur for bulk uploading of Google Maps business locations. Here are some of the most common errors, and ways to prevent them:…
By Deepak Lachwani, Google Base EngineeringTo help you better describe your items, we’re introducing a new rich text editor to our posting form. When you’re posting an item, you can now format your description by using formatting buttons or by using HT…
By Denise Gamboa, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWe just rolled out a new feature that helps to ensure the content on Google Base is as fresh as possible. From now on, when you upload an item (either via a bulk upload or through the web form), we …
By Alison Bjerke, Google Base OperationsLast week, we launched Google Checkout, a new process that enables customers to buy from sellers like you quickly and securely using a single username and password. When it’s easy for customers to buy from you, y…
By Mike Perry, Online Operations CoordinatorLately it seems there has been some confusion as to where your items will end up when you submit them to Google Base. Here’s the skinny: you can certainly find your items in Google Base search results (which …
By Clay Bavor, Associate Product ManagerToday we’re excited to announce the release of Google Base in Germany and the U.K., two more steps toward our goal of creating an easily searchable database of all the world’s structured information. Google Base …
By Shamim Samadi, Google Base OperationsIf you’re familiar with Google AdWords, you’ll be happy to know that we’re now enabling you to create AdWords ads for individually posted items in Google Base, right from the Google Base edit item page.Submitting…
By Denise Gamboa, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA unique feature of Google Base is the ability to create custom attributes and item types. This gives you an opportunity to include relevant information, no matter how obscure, detailed or specializ…
By Donal Mountain, Google Base UsabilityI’m a usability analyst on the Google Base team, and one thing I’ve been hearing many of you say is that bulk uploading is not as straightforward as you would like it to be. That’s why we’re currently working to…
By Denise Gamboa, Associate Product Marketing ManagerYou don’t necessarily have to have lots of stuff to find Google Base useful. There are lots of you out there who have just a few recipes or one-off events that you’d like to post. Recently we caugh…
By Bindu Reddy, Product ManagerThe other day I realized that Google Base could evolve into an interesting tool for discovering content. Type in any query and you’ll get a variety of item types which you then refine. The query [cancer] gives you clinica…
By Denise Gamboa, Product Marketing ManagerSince launch, people have found creative ways to use Google Base to their advantage, whether for personal or business use. Some of you have even written to let us know about your experience. Here is David Sang…
By Denise Gamboa, Product Marketing ManagerIf you attended CES in Las Vegas last week, you probably caught a glimpse of the Google booth. We were there conducting demos of Google Base along with a dozen or so other products.Photograph taken by ShamimGo…
By Denise Gamboa, Associate Product Marketing Manager Among the recipes, course schedules and events that can be found on Google Base, we came across a service called Solomodels. It’s a web solution for models and photographers, created by a group…