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Google Base Ideas

Heres some of my suggestions for Google Base's future: -

A progress meter (especially for larger feeds mine is over 500,000 items and takes a age to process and requires me to continually check the system)- detailing the processing of the items and also how many are waiting/are searchable.
Detailed notifications by email - that a feed has been processed, update on the number of items searchable.
A note on the individual bulk upload of the file size and item limit.(e.g. 20MB - 100,000 items) Currently you only see this when you creating the bulk upload not when you to upload it.
A note on how much of the limits you have used 15MB of 20MB | 350,000 of 500,000 - some people including myself have feeds with increased limits.
Take away the limit on the active item count the dasboard should show all your items.
Allow us to search the items we list through the dashboard so we can quickly find/edit items.
Allow html in xml descriptions. For those people on host items on Google Base
Allow use to be able to define a froogle category for our feed/individual items
Make the reporting stats columns filterable by count asc/desc
Make the reporting stats data exportable - it would be excellence for us to use this data in our back-end stats system
Fix the confusion between the UK version and US - clearly display what system you are in on the dashboard and let us easily swap between them