Google Base as a Commerce Platform
Google Base has recently announced on their Google Base blog that it will start offering commerce services on it’s pages:
While Google Base provides data structure and distribution for a wide range of content and information, a subset of items are for sale. To help users more easily purchase and sell Google Base items, we’re planning to enable people to buy items on Google Base using their Google Accounts.
And describes the benefits:
For buyers, this feature will provide a convenient and secure way to purchase Google Base items by credit card. For sellers, this feature integrates transaction processing with Google Base item management.
The above announcement also included a call for sellers to join the programs, and it seems as if several major players have already been contacted about this opportunity. TechCrunch has the scoop including screenshots and the whole shebang…
What Google does lack at the moment, and something they are working on, is a reputation system so that you can authenticate who the seller is and how trustworthy they are. Building a good reputation system is a very big problem, one that eBay has yet to completely solve so it will be interesting to see what Google will do about this.
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