Google Sites for everyone: GeoCities 2.0?

Google announced on its official blog late Wednesday that Google Sites, its simplified Web site creation service, is now available to any registered Google user.

Previously, only businesses with Google Apps accounts and their own domains had had access to Google Sites.

Unlike the free Web site creation services of yesteryear (and by yesteryear, I mean 1998), 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 sites are hosted for free at Google domains like sites.google.com/organicwheatgrassmoothieclub.

Google Sites got its start when Google acquired wiki platform JotSpot in 2006.

[T-Guy]

Seemed inevitable. I was wondering why it took so long...

[T-Guy]

Seemed inevitable. I was wondering what was taking them so long...

[Silver_2000]

accoring to the docs the urls will be http://sites.google.com/site/sites/SITENAME isn't that redundant x3 ? Once you create a site you find that the URL is really http://sites.google.com/site/SITENAME/ Which is only redundant X2 At some point im sure they will allow you to attach these sites to a domain ...

[QuadFather]

Seemed inevitable. I was wondering why it was taking them so long...

[andrew.mager]

Seemed inevitable. I was wondering why it was taking them so long... Oh, right, they have been busy redesigning their search results page.

[tzucc]

not too impressed with the page editor, basically a rich text editor on a web page, wow... check out the page editor at http://pikiwiki.com ... alot more flexible. Also pikipages app on Facebook allows you to make more interesting web pages than Google Sites.

[Papa G]

But hey, whatever happened to Google Pages? It seems like it just died! I can't find it on Google's service list anymore, although I can access it at pages.google.com. The new service is better.