Crazy. If eBay, Craigslist, etc require listing fees AND ad revenue, makes you wonder how Google can do it on ad revenue alone... or if eBay and such really need annoying ads. The more profit, the better; that's the capitalistic way.

Anyone want to start a Google-Base-Watch to predict just how soon it will be ravaged by overzealous and fraudulent "businesses"? Perhaps this is similar to Google's newsgroup posting feature; allow anyone to put content on the internet, without server access.

Regardless, Google is starting to get too big. Personally, I like multiple companies for multiple products/services similar to using multiple devices for multiple uses. When one starts to take them all over (ie: Yahoo circa 1998), it gets scary.