That Was The Week

That Was The Week

Google launched Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality.

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon V…

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