Seemingly not satisfied with providing the Web’s most popular and expansive search engine, Internet heavyweight Google Inc., has this week announced Google Sites, which will enable users to quickly and easily create their very own Web sites in a matter of clicks.
Google\'s acquisition of JotSpot leads to the unveiling of Google Sites. Credit: Google Inc.
The service will arrive as completely free and has been spawned following Google’s 2006 acquisition of Californian start-up company JotSpot, which provided many of the Web tools implemented via Google Sites.
Designed primarily for technophile enthusiasts in need of a simple way to share information throughout their organisations, Google Sites will allow its users to quickly set up a site where text posts, pictures, calendars and media clip attachments (including those from Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube) can be added for collective viewing and editing.
Dave Girouard, GM of Google Enterprise commented that the search giant is “literally adding an edit button to the Web” with Google Sites, which will become a part of online software suite Google Apps while hosting any and all creations via Google’s own computers.
Google Sites will arrive as a handy and simplistic alternative to the likes of Microsoft’s Sharepoint and IBM’s Lotus Notes and its unveiling has even led to Google Enterprise product management director Matthew Glotzbach ambitiously referring to it as a “Sharepoint killer.”
While Glotzbach may be overreaching at such an early stage and Sites may not deliver the same depth of applications as its rivals, many people inside organisations might choose to embrace the simplicity of Google’s Web creation tools in order to bypass the more challenging acclimatisation related to Microsoft’s and IBM’s offerings.
In terms of those already using Google Sites, the search specialist is lauding organisations such as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Government of the District of Columbia, and Zodiac Interactive.
Learn more by clicking here .
Chris Yeh, VP Enterprise Marketing for PBwiki, IncMar 1st, 2008 - 01:51:49
While Google is treating the Google Sites launch as a big deal, PBwiki has been offering better functionality (in my biased opinion) for years, and has thousands of paying customers, including Facebook, Symantec, DePaul University, and the FDA
Report this comment