Google Romance may have been an April Fool’s joke, but online dating via Googlebase seems like an early-stage reality.
As a subset of People Profiles, this is interesting–but what’s especially interesting are some of the small dating services loading profiles into the GB and the small but growing number of individuals posting themselves as date bait–basically, there’s little cross-over between the explicitly sexual profiles posted on GB and the listings you see on most of the bigger online dating sites.
My friend Richard MacManus has a good piece on Google Base and all the formats they are now supporting–Michael Nguyen calls it Google Base Creep-
Of course GB will impact real estate, cars, jobs, before Personals, but the march is on.
Google Romance may have been an April Fool’s joke, but online dating via Googlebase seems like an early-stage reality.
As a subset of People Profiles, this is interesting–but what’s especially interesting are some of the small dating services loading profiles into the GB and the small but growing number of individuals posting themselves as date bait–basically, there’s little cross-over between the explicitly sexual profiles posted on GB and the listings you see on most of the bigger online dating sites.
My friend Richard MacManus has a good piece on Google Base and all the formats they are now supporting–Michael Nguyen calls it Google Base Creep-
Of course GB will impact real estate, cars, jobs, before Personals, but the march is on.