Google Sites For All!
By Horrocks, 22 May 2008 - 17:31 18 comments
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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Comments (18)
C_Guy - 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.
Magallanes - 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
Majesticmerc - 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!
Airlink - 22 May 2008 - 23:57
You can't afford what he's smoking.
Majesticmerc - 23 May 2008 - 13:01
Touché
xinary - 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.
C_Guy - 22 May 2008 - 19:16
You will discover one day that nothing in this world is truly free. Until then, enjoy your Google "services".
LipSmacker - 22 May 2008 - 19:56
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??
linuxamp - 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.
toadeater - 23 May 2008 - 06:07
VD is free.
SniperX - 23 May 2008 - 08:32
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.
+dead.cell - 22 May 2008 - 18:12
What's the big difference from this and Google Pages?
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.
OblivionStalker - 22 May 2008 - 18:27
Better design and something in that path?
+shinji257 - 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.
+shinji257 - 22 May 2008 - 21:03
Additional information about Google Sites
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html
shiny_red_cobra - 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.
dysmatik - 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.