Google Base Asks For Help Understanding

Google Base, the service where people upload all sorts of stuff to a Google database (mostly products, services and information for sale), is now asking uploaders some questions so it can better understand what is in the database. For example, Base will present a user with 30 questions, some looking at the product listing and asking if it is correctly identifying key words (like brand names).
Hopefully these questions don’t just help on the particular listing, but are part of some sort of attempt to make the Base algorithm smarter so it can do an even better job all by itself.
I wonder how popular Google Base is these days. Google’s created some really cool vertical search engines using Base, but without any idea if users are taking advantage of them, there’s no way to know if Base is fabulous or a flop.
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg