Powered by Google's Big Table/a cheap storage solution (clusters of cheap PCs) Google now has three solutions for placing content on the Web -
1. Base.google.com - for listings on the Web
2. Pages.google.com - for simple publishing of Web pages
3. Blogger - Blogging platform
The most recent Google Pages seems like Geocities with a much better Ajax-ified user interface. They also let you upload files and they may even combine this with Google Desktop (which already has a scratchpad) to easily sync notes/content from the desktop to the Web. They have a 100 MB limit for now - which they will probably raise based on the response, BW utilization and abuse they see.
This will address that user segment that wants a simple publishing solution, doesn't want the chronological order imposed by
Blogs or the expectation of regular updates that a Blog implies. They will probably index these pages faster into their engine providing an incentive for people with commercial content to move to Google. Adsense may be a next step.
1. Base.google.com - for listings on the Web
2. Pages.google.com - for simple publishing of Web pages
3. Blogger - Blogging platform
The most recent Google Pages seems like Geocities with a much better Ajax-ified user interface. They also let you upload files and they may even combine this with Google Desktop (which already has a scratchpad) to easily sync notes/content from the desktop to the Web. They have a 100 MB limit for now - which they will probably raise based on the response, BW utilization and abuse they see.
This will address that user segment that wants a simple publishing solution, doesn't want the chronological order imposed by
Blogs or the expectation of regular updates that a Blog implies. They will probably index these pages faster into their engine providing an incentive for people with commercial content to move to Google. Adsense may be a next step.
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