We all know the rumors that are out there - Google's gonna kill Craig's List, gonna kill Microsoft, gonna kill Yahoo!, gonna kill your sister, gonna kill yo mama. This post is not about how scary Google could become and how quickly it could happen (maybe later). Rather this one is about the geeky fact that Google Base, that killer platform enabler, looks to be getting closer to being something we can actually use.

Go to http://base.google.com and it's not a 403 permission denied error that's displayed anymore. At least not this morning when I try. I logged on with my GMail account info (see pic below). Nothing happened (not like my account has anything special going), but something must be coming...

Ah... and a quick Google Blog Search turns up (of course) some good info at Google Blogoscoped. Go read. Cool.