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Google Ditches the Google Base Search Page

Google is shutting down Google Base's search page. The company has deemed the page all but worthless, saying that people search Google Product Search for products and Google Maps for houses for rent/sale.

Google Splits Up Google Base

Google has split Google Base into two separate entities - Google Base and the new Google Merchant Center. The Merchant Center will replace Google Base for users who submit product-type items to Google.

Google Reduces Restictions on Google Checkout

Google has made a change to its content restrictions for Google Checkout. Google Checkout now allows the sale of real estate rentals, timeshares, and day sight-seeing tours.

Google Introduces Multi-Client Accounts for Product Search

Google has introduced some new policies for marketplaces and aggregators on Google Product Search. They have also introduced multi-client accounts to help aggregators and marketplaces manage feeds for multiple sellers under a single account.

Gmail Tasks Lab Gets New Useful Features

Back in December, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs called "Tasks" that provides Gmail users with a window to keep track of their...tasks (go figure). Today, they have announced a couple new features for Tasks. Users can now easily move a task (along with its sub-tasks) to another list by clicking on the arrow (or using Shift-Enter) to the right of the task, then selecting another list in the drop down at the bottom of the screen.

Google Base Help Forum Rolls Out Welcome Mat

The Google Base Help Forum - or at least a person who runs it - doesn't want you to forget that the resource is there.  A "new" layout that's more than two months old is getting a little spotlight time.

Five Ways To Boost Google Product Search Sales

Google has been pretty good about providing holidays tips lately. They've discussed ways of getting found in Google Product Search easier, and they have continued with this theme in a new blog post on the Official Google Base Blog.

Google Makes it Easier To Get Found in Product Search

Last week, we looked at ways you can use Google to boost your clicks and conversions for the holiday season. One tip we discussed was submitting your products by data feed to Google Product Search.

Google Base Changes Vertical Search Results

Google Base has a bunch of search verticals, mini search engines built on data uploaded to Base, and they’ve changed the results format of those search engines. The old:

Merchants Reject New Google Base Attributes

A couple of weeks ago, the Google Base team announced a change: it claimed that it was “requiring” merchants to include additional attributes for product listings, but no time limit was mentioned. Now it appears that a deadline – February 28 – has been set, and a lot of people aren’t happy about it. “akmac,” a veteran member of the WebmasterWorld Forum, posted a bit of text from an e-mail that he (or she) had received (and Search Engine Roundtable observes credit for spotting it).