The Google Base rumors are interesting but it seems to fall short of what I was hoping they’d do: let blogs and forum software (and other web apps) drop their data straight into Google and then offer webmasters a free Google search in exchange. This’d get Google a ton of data that’s difficult to index and organize (particularly forums) and provide a much needed service to the web community. Looks like they’re looking for specific sorts of data though. We’ll see once it launches.