{"id":197,"date":"2006-03-29T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-29T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T08:04:40","slug":"all_our_base_are_belong_to_amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2006\/all_our_base_are_belong_to_amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"All Our Base Are Belong to Amazon."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>I was thinking, &#8220;<i>Gee, I&#8217;d really like some good hot and sour soup today!<\/i>&#8221;  So I Googled my favorite Chinese restaurant for their details.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/media\/amazonwhitepages_01.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" alt=\"\" \/>Out of habit, I clicked the first link (I really should just be hitting &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling lucky&#8221; at this point with Google, but we all know how habits prevail).  Then I saw where I was going, and became immediately concerned.  <i>Amazon.com?!  Back button!  Back! Go back!  I don&#8217;t want to buy a book!  I just want an address and phone number!  Back!<\/i>But my overexerted RAM didn&#8217;t hear my cry in time, and before I knew it, I was here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/yp\/B0004CDXKI\/102-3767747-2021752?v=ypglance&amp;n=3999141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/media\/amazonwhitepages2.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>None other than <b>Amazon White Pages<\/b>.  Surprise!  Somehow they managed to move to the top of the Google results before I even knew they existed.  And somehow, that part doesn&#8217;t surprise me.  What <i>does<\/i> surprise me is how cool they are.  They combine local photography (<i>local photography?!<\/i>) to show you the area you&#8217;re going to.  (Or is it super-close-up satellite photography that&#8217;s also watching you take a shower?) They&#8217;ve also got mapquest maps (to be expected), and a place for you to enter your phone number so that the <i>business<\/i> will call <i>you<\/i>. Weird.My commentary?  The good news is, the cool stuff on the web is evolving and exploding.  The bad news is, it&#8217;s still being dominated by the same four companies: google, yahoo, amazon, and ebay.Tell me.  Really.  Why does Amazon need its own <i>white pages<\/i>?p.s. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/grokfairy.livejournal.com\">grokfairy<\/a> for the recent fascination with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowclone\">snowclones<\/a>. White pages are the new black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.I was thinking, &#8220;Gee, I&#8217;d really like some good hot and sour soup today!&#8221; So I Googled my favorite Chinese restaurant for their details. Out of habit, I clicked the first link (I really should just be hitting &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}