A couple of weeks ago, the Google Base team announced a change: it claimed that it was

Froogle’s replacement, Google Base, has been missing in action from the Google search results, but some sleuthing may have turned up the elusive service.

The homepage for Google Base received a mild makeover in order to improve its usability, particularly by bulk uploaders who can enhance its value by placing a lot of items in Base in one go.

Google released its Google Base data API, GData for short, that allows developers to write dynamic and interactive applications for Google Base. This opens up the possibility of Google Base mash-ups that combine content with other services.

The Google Base team added a few new features to its “My items” dashboard, allowing merchants to monitor search engine results pages (SERPs) impression, click-throughs, and page views.

Google Base now lets you attach documents to your items.

Google is encouraging users to promote products and services listed on Google Base through its AdWords program.

The Google Base blog announces that you can now advertise your Google Base items in Google AdWords, finally releasing the “Automat” system we saw in a patent filing last November.

I know Google’s integration of Google Base, with its regular search results, hit most people’s news reader last week, but the company had been quietly integrating Google Base for a couple of weeks now.

Results drawn from Google Base have started to appear in search results drawn for certain keywords.

Yesterday, three important things arrived. The first was my first free issue of Wired, with Will Wright as guest editor.

Barry has been accepted into Google Base and given the ability to sell items through Google Purchases.

Looks like some of the pioneers who bought the first items available on Google Base got special gifts from Google for being first.