For those that haven’t noticed, Google Onebox has been on vacation at some datacenters. This has led to my inbox getting rumors into it. To discuss this, I have David with me on the podcast, but his comments won’t be on the blog post. So, here are some of the rumors that have been going around and a few of my thoughts.
1) More Onebox Options
There are plenty of options already, but I could see more content being highlighted being a good thing.
Google seems to think you can post just about anything into Google base. They list the following on their site:
Examples of popular item types:
Examples of other interesting item types:
Thanks to David Brown, I now have a demo video available on the site. Just use the “What is Onebox” link to the right, or use this link to go to the OneBox Demo video. Hopefully, anyone that has been wondering what this is all about will find the video useful.
A few of you know that I’m rolling out a service. For those of you that don’t, let me tell you a little about it.
First, it’s tentatively called BaseOp.
Secondly, since my time during the day is very limited (yes, I have a full time job), David Brown of Neo1SEO.com is going to take care of all the customer service aspects and setup contact.
Brian Mark is a forum regular around the web and a speaker at Search Engine Strategies. He has worked at ToolBarn.com since 1999, taking the online retailer of power tools from a few orders per week to an Internet Retailer Top 500 company.
