Google Sites For All!
Posted by Kevin Horrocks on 22 May 2008 - 17:31 · 18 comments & 7052 views
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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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by C_Guy on 22 May 2008 - 17:54
I'm sure Google will also provide, FREE of charge, those "enhancements" they keep praising! You know, to "improve" the user's Internet experience.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Magallanes on 22 May 2008 - 17:56
It's ideal for someone that unable to paid $5 x month for a real hosting and don't want one (of many) free "web page hosting" (such myspace, facebook and such) or another free web hosting


(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by El Sid on 22 May 2008 - 17:58
So... it's google pages?

If andrew Zaeske thinks that an online Wysiwyg editor will make an "Ideal company intranet" , then I want what he's smoking!
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by Airlink on 22 May 2008 - 23:57
You can't afford what he's smoking.
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by El Sid on 23 May 2008 - 13:01
(Airlink said @ #3.1)
You can't afford what he's smoking.


Touché
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by xinary on 22 May 2008 - 18:02
lol anyone that would complain about this is retarded, google is a great company which offers tons of things for free without excessive ad's, spyware, etc etc.

fokkin elitist.
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by C_Guy on 22 May 2008 - 19:16
You will discover one day that nothing in this world is truly free. Until then, enjoy your Google "services".
Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by LipSmacker on 22 May 2008 - 19:56
(C_Guy said @ #4.1)
You will discover one day that nothing in this world is truly free. Until then, enjoy your Google "services".


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??
Quote this comment #4.3 Posted by linuxamp on 23 May 2008 - 05:13
They install a tracking cookie. When you visit any site with any embedded google widget (google analytics, google adsense, whatever...) they can follow you around and gain valuable marketing information to provide accurately targeted ads which increase the likelihood of you completing a transaction.
Quote this comment #4.4 Posted by toadeater on 23 May 2008 - 06:07
(C_Guy said @ #4.1)
You will discover one day that nothing in this world is truly free.


VD is free.
Quote this comment #4.5 Posted by SniperX on 23 May 2008 - 08:32
(C_Guy said @ #4.1)
You will discover one day that nothing in this world is truly free. Until then, enjoy your Google "services".
Ain't that the truth!

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.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by +Dakkaroth on 22 May 2008 - 18:12
What's the big difference from this and Google Pages?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by vetmarkjensen on 22 May 2008 - 18:53
I'm not sure, but I am in the process of creating and testing one now.

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.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by OblivionStalker on 22 May 2008 - 18:27
Better design and something in that path?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by shinji257 on 22 May 2008 - 20:43
For me this is old news as I have had this "available" on my domain for at least 2 weeks now. Anyways one difference may be just the way they are implemented as I think sites has more capability vs just the pages.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by shinji257 on 22 May 2008 - 21:03
Additional information about Google Sites

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by tripleXit on 23 May 2008 - 00:56
Errm...didn't google already have such a service in place for a couple of years now? I remember putting together a dumb little site full of their gadgets quite some time ago.
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by +dysmatik on 23 May 2008 - 03:21
Second that.
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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