Google Pages Launches

An anonymous reader writes "Google released the first public beta of its Google Pages service Wednesday, allowing users who signed up for the service in January and February to begin creating personal websites using an easy-to-use, browser-based tool. The service gives each user 100 MB of free storage space on Google's servers. To use the Google Page Creator tool, users must have an existing Google account. However, only those who signed up early (in January and February) to use Google Pages have access to the current beta. No new signups are being accepted at this time, Google said. The company is expected to open Page Creator to more widespread use over the next few weeks."

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The information Microsoft

[MikeRT]

Email, search, news aggregation, blogging, webpage design, maps. Google is an information behemoth that is in search of a search engine these days. Don't get me wrong, I still think that they are winning on quality with their search, email and news services, but they are expanding rapidly into every conceivable territory, often without regard for being significantly better.

Ironically, just like Microsoft, they have a core strength surrounded by large amounts of weakness. Microsoft's great strengths are only its OS products, Microsoft Office and its development tools for the same. The other stuff in some respects actually drags the company down by causing it to lose sight of keeping the core compelling.

I actually happen to have no problem with Microsoft's core products, but there is a real, meaningful parallel between the two companies now. Google has "done evil" and will continue to do so. At this point in the game, their markets are too different to say whether Google really does have a different corporate culture in principle rather than degrees. Microsoft had to be vicious in order to become as big in its markets, but Google has to walk a finer line because information service monopolies are intrinsically scary to a much larger number of people than an OS and Office suite monopoly, though Google doesn't yet have a monopoly.

Re:DeJaVoogle

[barefootgenius]

"I've noticed that Google seem to wait for a technology to develop, see where it trips up, then make its own GVersion. Kind of nifty, really."

I think you mean,"Kind of Microsoft".