Aimed crawling (Google sitemaps) was a nice move.

Next feedsearch, at launch day I had lots of Web pages (non-blog stuff) in the index. Unfortunately blogsearch has not that much users, but it’s a great channel to present ’static’ content to a new crowd (fenced blogosphere).

Now with Googlebase, which looks like kinda search index storing *structured* data of any kind, it seems I’ve way more opportunities. Unlike Froogle I can upload all kind of (unspecified/unpriced) service offers, sales pitches embedded in information, or pieces from Web sites…

If I understand the intention right, Google can launch zillions of user interfaces pulling data from this pool, some in conjunction with other services like payment processing. Classified ads, travel info and booking services, auctions, software downloads and shopping for other digital goods are just a few commercial variants. Knowledge bases delivering information and contextual ads, online dating / friendfinder stuff, directories, yellow pages … once Google has a hand on structured data in critical masses they can do a lot of neat stuff.

And don’t forget the hint that structured data from the Googlebase may appear in Web results. This will lead to a few tricky inventions

Well, that’s all educated speculation, but I’m sure that I can make use of Googlebase in very creative ways.