Google Now In The Biz Of Building Websites

Google would now like to help you build websites. The company has now added Google Sites to its Google Apps web office suite which allows end users and businesses to create websites. The was made possible by virtue of their acquisition of Jotspot some time back and the re-tooling of that app into this new site creation tool. Sites allow code-challenged users to build, customize, and oh yes search their websites. Users can centralize all types of information including videos and presentations and share their site with just a few people, across a company, or with the world.

"With only a few clicks, just about anyone will be able to quickly set up and update a Web site featuring a wide array of material, including pictures, calendars and video from Google Inc.'s YouTube subsidiary," said Dave Girouard, general manager of the division overseeing the new application. This is yet another attempt by Google to rival Microsoft Office and Sharepoint in this case. Dan Farber's blog over at Cnet provides this perspective: "Google now has a pretty good and easy web-page creator with some wiki features made user-friendly, and a half-hearted attempt at integrating the rest of the Apps empire using Sites. Perhaps they get it right in the next release."