{"id":109,"date":"2006-06-15T07:12:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T12:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=109"},"modified":"2006-06-15T07:12:55","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T12:12:55","slug":"new-google-base-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/new-google-base-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google Base Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are rarely on the bleeding edge here at <em>The Hire Sense<\/em> so maybe this isn&#8217;t news.  Well, it is news to us.  I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/base.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Base<\/a> this week.  It appears to still be in beta test, but it looks like a fairly slick offering from the search juggernaut.<\/p>\n<p>You can post an item to a category whether it is from your blog, a want ad, a recipe, tickets, etc.  It appears to be a real potpourri of stuff similar to Craigs List.  We are checking out their job board to see what type of activity it generates.  The site may be a bit too new to have much value in that arena.  However, it is from Google so I suspect it will grow quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are rarely on the bleeding edge here at The Hire Sense so maybe this isn&#8217;t news. Well, it is news to us. I stumbled upon Google Base this week. It appears to still be in beta test, but it looks like a fairly slick offering from the search juggernaut. You can post an item to a category whether it is from your blog, a want ad, a recipe, tickets, etc. It appears to be a real potpourri of stuff similar to Craigs List. We are checking out their job board to see what type of activity it generates. The site may be a bit too new to have much&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/new-google-base-beta\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-1L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":389,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/when-google-hires-people-interview\/","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":0},"title":"When Google Hires, People Interview","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Adjusts Hiring Process As Need for New Talent Grows provides a glimpse of the extended hiring process of a suddenly large company. 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