Google Base at CES
January 10th, 2006 | Published in Google Merchant
By Denise Gamboa, Product Marketing Manager
If 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 Shamim
Google booth - South Hall Las Vegas Convention Center
Photograph taken by Shamim
Google booth - robotic arm
Photograph taken by Denise
Bindu answering questions at Google Base station
Photograph taken by Shamim
Denise at Google Base station
Over four days (January 5th-8th) we met people from all sorts of different backgrounds: an exchange student from France, small business owners, real estate agents, professors, investors, reporters and webmasters. We found that Google Base is useful to people in different ways. Students are interested in sharing information about their classes, their work and their social lives. Business owners want to drive additional visibility to their websites and to the products/services that they want to sell. Webmasters want more traffic and are curious about integrated features that Google Base has to offer. In every case, it was exciting to meet our users and answer questions that you had.
Your favorite features and functionality:
1. Possible distribution to other Google properties like Google, Froogle and Google Local
2. It's free!
3. Attribute search
4. Ability to define your own attributes and keywords
5. Ability to bulk upload items
6. Ability to link to your own website
7. Email anonymization
8. Google maps integration
Top inquiries we received (linked to corresponding answers):
1. What is Google Base?
2. What type of information can I submit to Google Base?
3. Can I upload digital files?
4. Is it free? No way!
5. What if I have lots of things to share?
6. What are custom attributes?
Many people were also interested in hearing about coming features and future plans. Stay tuned to find out more about those! We have some exciting things lined up!
If 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 Shamim
Google booth - South Hall Las Vegas Convention Center
Photograph taken by Shamim
Google booth - robotic arm
Photograph taken by Denise
Bindu answering questions at Google Base station
Photograph taken by Shamim
Denise at Google Base station
Over four days (January 5th-8th) we met people from all sorts of different backgrounds: an exchange student from France, small business owners, real estate agents, professors, investors, reporters and webmasters. We found that Google Base is useful to people in different ways. Students are interested in sharing information about their classes, their work and their social lives. Business owners want to drive additional visibility to their websites and to the products/services that they want to sell. Webmasters want more traffic and are curious about integrated features that Google Base has to offer. In every case, it was exciting to meet our users and answer questions that you had.
Your favorite features and functionality:
1. Possible distribution to other Google properties like Google, Froogle and Google Local
2. It's free!
3. Attribute search
4. Ability to define your own attributes and keywords
5. Ability to bulk upload items
6. Ability to link to your own website
7. Email anonymization
8. Google maps integration
Top inquiries we received (linked to corresponding answers):
1. What is Google Base?
2. What type of information can I submit to Google Base?
3. Can I upload digital files?
4. Is it free? No way!
5. What if I have lots of things to share?
6. What are custom attributes?
Many people were also interested in hearing about coming features and future plans. Stay tuned to find out more about those! We have some exciting things lined up!