Google Gearing Up to Launch Google Mine, a Service to Track and Share Belongings – Report


By: Jeff Stewart  |   June 24th, 2013   |   Google, News

Google Operating System blog provides unofficial tips and news about the Mountain View-based company has claimed through a post on Friday, June 21st that the search engine giant is getting ready to launch a new service that will be called Google Mine. The blog post also revealed that the new service will be deeply integrated into the Google+ and supposedly enable users to record the items a user owns or would wish to own. In addition to this, the blog also asserted that Google Mine will not only share some of the belongings of the users with their Google+ circles, but discuss them as well. The unofficial blog post has also tracked some of the codes, which shows the keywords new Mine service will use. These keywords are as: “lent”, “given away”, “got it back”, “lost it”, “had in the past.”

 

This post from the Google Operating System blog sounds as if the multinational company is gearing up to launch a service alike GDGT, which is a rating and gadget sharing site. However, at this point in time nothing is official therefore one cannot say whether Google is looking to roll out such a service or not. But since this story is out, hopefully a denial or confirmation may soon hit the web. As far as the posting from the Unofficial blog is concerned, users can find it below to learn more details:

 

“Google prepares a new service that’s called Google Mine. It’s integrated with Google+ and it’s a way to keep track of the items you own or you’d like to have and share some of them with your circles. Right now, the service is tested internally at Google.

 

“Google Mine lets you share your belongings with your friends and keep up to date with what your friends are sharing. It enables you to control which of your Google+ Circles you share an item with. It also lets you rate and review the items, upload photos of them and share updates on the Google+ Stream where your friends get to see and comment on them.”

 

Google Mine lets you organize the things you own, use, wish for, and more: gadgets, clothing, electronics, DVDs, cars, bikes or anything!

 

It also enables social interactions around them with your Circles using Google+:

 

– Catalog your belongings, track what you have

 

– Review your belongings for your friends to see

 

– Control who sees what, track conversations

 

– Send requests to borrow or try out friends’ stuff

 

– Share stuff you wish for, get recommendations

 

– Share stuff you are giving away, find takers

 

– Follow, browse, search stuff that friends share.”

 

Source: 9to5Google, GoogleOperatingSystemblog

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