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.
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline. 
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 ...
- by Papa G July 2, 2008 2:27 PM PDT
- 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.
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