There's another project that Google has secretly trying to launch on Beta
stage in these days, called Google
Base (not available now). To use Google's
words, Google Base is Google's database into which you can add all
types of content and make it searchable online for free.
The service could be interesting, expecially to share contents on the net and
retrieve them with different option of searching (exactly like a normal
search engine). But to be really useful I think that the service must do more
than hosting and share contents. Why not having the chance to host documents and
search them by their contents for example?
And what about the privacy? If I post something for myself (for example
photos or private documents), will they generally available? Another problem I
see is about policy: I think this could be an easy way to transmit illegal
materials on the net and make it available to all. It's not so clear how Google
will handle this...
However, despite all these facts (that will be more clear when Google Base
will be generally available), when I think about what Google Base can do I've a
main think on my mind: will be this something like a "mini Google
Internet"? 