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Google Previews App Engine
An anonymous reader writes "Google is giving a handful of web programmers the opportunity to create and run their own Web applications on their servers. Today's launch of a preview release of Google App Engine signals a new era of collaboration with third-party software developers. 'The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new Web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions of users," said Google product manager, Paul McDonald in a blog post."
I like http://search.msn.com/ better.
Microsoft's Live technology far exceeds Google's offerings. I'm selling my GOOG for MSFT stock and BRK.A.
Sincerely,
Warren Buffet
God is Back
That was enlightening
I'm really glad the incredibly creative people at Google put thier minds to work on another totally original business offering: free web hosting!
As if taking Geocities, slapping a Google logo on it and releasing it to the world is somehow going to make the majority of us, who got away from free hosting even for our junk/test sites, at some point in 1998, want to try all that over again.
An API? wow, is that nothing more than a gloified sitebuilder, the likes of which Yahoo/Geocities and all the other free hosts have had for over 10 years?
Ask a web developer what an API is, they will tell you it comes in a "Stack": Linux/Windows/FreeBSD/etc. SQL/MySQL/PostGre/Oracle/etc. PHP/ASP/.Net/Python/ColdFusion/etc.
I run sites with millions of users, have instant load times with mysql and don't have to 'reshard' anything..
"less time on crap like debugging database replication and figuring out the annoying parts of how to geocode Japanese street addresses "
dude you have your priorities wayyy out of wack..
oh and keep up the good work of censoring the olympic protests on google news!! just what everyone wants to use, a communist company service..