What is the best free web-based solution for my needs?

[nauru]

I want to gradually build a searchable database which I will use to track institutions, individuals, and those individuals' research. It will have roughly 10,000 entries.

I want to be able to label each of the database entries and quickly bring up all the individuals who I've tagged with a certain label. Also, it should be searchable.

Currently I'm using a wordpress blog to do this, and making a new blog entry for each new institution, individual, and piece of research. But I don't like that it's public, and also it's very bloated and cumbersome; I prefer something more like a spreadsheet with expandable, collapsable, sortable, printable data at my fingertips. I don't mind bloat if it makes the interface more user friendly, but really a blog is not the ideal medium for this project I don't think.

I'd prefer if it's web-based so that I can access it from anywhere, regardless of what OS I'm running, and also protects me somewhat if my computer dies.

Honestly I think what I'm describing here is the most basic type of database in the world; I just need one that's web-based and free

Does anyone have any ideas?

One that I am considering is this: http://baseportal.com/index.html

[sexyj]

Create a html form that input it into a mysql database.

[xalex0]

google docs?

[nauru]

Create a html form that input it into a mysql database.

Is there a very easy way to do this given no prior knowledge of HTML or MYSQL? And no personal webspace or personal website. Thanks.

google docs?

Can you be more specific? Which specific application within Google Drive are you recommending here? And why?