Google announced that their Sites service is now open to anyone who wants to use it.
According to what the big G says about it, it’s a thing where you can create a site (duh,) and have the ability to share it, collaborate it and so on and so forth.
So I tried it out.
This is the first thing I noticed:
Sites, site, sites? Jeez, could it say “site” enough times? And yes that is a real URL that appears once logged into the system.
After that I made a site. It’s exceedingly boring.
Then I quickly realized that without any social media interaction (not even Orkut – a Google product – will connect to it,) that Google Sites sucks. This is nothing more than a Geocities with some sharing options, but none that matter.
Could anyone find a legitimate use for this? I couldn’t.
I’m disappointed in Google. Really.
Google Pages was awesome for two main reasons:
a. You get a subdomain. That’s semi-professional, and allows you to do things such as add a favicon.
b. They didn’t add anything to the pages. You could do whatever you want! No “powered by Google Pages”.
Now they took away both of those advantages.
I agree with everyones comments about Google Sites, Google Page Creator is awesome, I still have it for some reason, it never transfered!!!
But half of the icons and features are all jacked up. But I can still make my professional websites with no GOOGLE anywhere on the page.