Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts. Google plans to extend this simple hosting and design solution to those wanting to host simple web-pages. Google Sites offers a variety of themes, and arrangements to help create your website. There is also the ability to integrate your Google Calendars, Mail, and Files with ease.
Google Sites are collaborative, which engineering manager Andrew Zaeske said in the announcement makes them ideal for "team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it."
No HTML knowledge is required, and your website will be hosted for free on the Google domain.
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If andrew Zaeske thinks that an online Wysiwyg editor will make an "Ideal company intranet" , then I want what he's smoking!
Touché
fokkin elitist.
Totally unrelated, but how did Napster make money back in the hayday? There wasn't any advertising..... How does Google make any $ off of these "free" programs??
VD is free.
Anyone who seriously believes that all this is free, is leaving in a dream-state. You just happen to be paying with something else more valuable to Google than money - your data. It's worth a fortune to a company like Google.
Pages had limitations with not being able to make subfolders. This seems to share that.
It seems to be a sort of "mypage"ish or "blog"-like type of thing. Post an entry, and other people can comment. With pages you set up simple static pages. These seem to have some coding behind them geared for a bit more social interaction.
You can also set up collaborators. I don't think you could with pages.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html
And why not just use blogger for this sort of thing.
Google already owns them and integrates with your google account.
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