It seems Google pages is expanding the beta somewhat; I tried to log in today, and lo and behold, I was able to create a Google page.
It’s a very intuitive interface, with lots of options; it’s WYSIWYG, but you have the option (thankfully) to edit the HTML.
I want to raise the question that chagrined companies everywhere are probably asking. Why is it that we (techies in general) scoffed and derided web mail in favor of popmail clients… until Gmail? Why are those who scorn WYSIWYG html editors (at least, I do; sorry) ready to favorably look upon a WYSIWYG html editor that Google made?
Why is it, you may ask, that Google can do no wrong? Why are the Google versions of products a success when other versions of the same sort of projects failed? (I’m speaking in broad generalizations, here.)
That’s a good question. It can probably be partly answered by saying “Google did it better than it had been done before,” which is a matter of opinion, but probably one that is widely held. It may be the ineffable aura of cool that still seems to be following Google wherever they go. It might be because many still see Google as being just a couple of geeks who made it big — really, really, big — and that we somehow just want to see Google succeed. Who knows?
Unanswerable questions put aside… it’s a cool toy. And free web space is nothing to complain about either, even if it is just 100MB. If you haven’t already, check it out.
