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April 18, 2009

Free Business Websites: Yahoo Dropped, Google Still Offering

Doing a search of some of the older content on Search Engine Watch, I came across an article about Yahoo's once free business websites. That offer has long been dropped and replaced with a paid offering, while Google has had free Google Page Creator which has since been moved to Google Sites.

It is interesting to watch how Google and Yahoo explore similar products and then how one company drops one while the other keeps them. For example, Google Answers dropped but Yahoo has kept their version.

Posted by Frank Watson at 11:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

October 26, 2006

Google Page Creator Drops Subdomain Feature

Garett Rogers reports that Google Page Creator has removed the feature to "Create a site with a different address." In the past, there was a link to "Create a site with a different address" enabling you to create a different subdomain on Google Pages. That feature is no longer there. Garett says he doesn't know why Google removed it, but maybe it had to do with web spammers creating too many spam pages? Just a guess.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 12:41 PM | Permalink

August 28, 2006

Google Apps for Your Domain Live

Google announced the official launch of Google Apps for Your Domain. Everyone is talking about how this is an enterprise solution because it allows companies use Google products, currently Gmail, Calendar, Page Creator and Talk on their own domain. You can expect many of Google's other products to be rolled into this service, including Google Analytics, Google Notebook, Google Spreadsheets and others.

Let's step back, on February 10th Google launched a beta program named Gmail for Domains, they initially got some universities to sign up and then some small business also signed up (from what I hear).

Do you think IBM, Oracle, Pitney Bowes or other Fortune 500 would switch over? Is it Google's hope that they would consider it? Google seems like they will be offering a premium version of this service, but they don't have one at this time. Would I sign up my company on this program? Honestly, I highly doubt it. Why? Privacy, configurability, security, expandability and something doesn't sit right with moving my email or calendaring systems over to a free service - I need to pay someone in order to have someone to be held accountable.

Want to discuss in our forums? Join our Search Engine Watch Forums thread named Google Apps for Your Domain.

Postscript From Danny: Information Week has a long story on the program here, and there's lots of coverage from elsewhere you'll find on Techmeme here.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:01 AM | Permalink

July 12, 2006

Google Pages & Yahoo Geocities Phishing Attacks

We learn from VNUnet.com that there are phishing scams on Google Pages and we also learn from Slashdot that Yahoo's Geocities has a similar issue. A email goes out telling people they can win a "$500 cash prize, and that the money can be paid automatically if they click on the embedded web link."

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 10:53 AM | Permalink

July 3, 2006

Google Page Creator Now Supporting AdSense

Google Page Creator, which I recently reported did not support AdSense, now does. Garett Rogers has invitations sent out to Google Page Creator accounts from Google, notifying them that they now accept AdSense. Honestly, when I read this, it made me sad. Why? One word, "MFAs". Below is a copy of that email invitation.

Hi,

We're happy to let you know that Google Page Creator is now compatible with AdSense. Please feel free to add the AdSense code to your Page Creator web pages. If you don't know how to implement the AdSense code with Google Page Creator, please follow the instructions below:

1. Log into your AdSense account at www.google.com/adsense 2. From the AdSense Setup tab, customize and generate your AdSense code 3. Copy the generated code from the 'Your AdSense code' box 4. Log into your Google Page Creator account 5. Select the web page you'd like to display AdSense ads 6. Select the field where you'd like the ads to appear 7. Click 'Edit HTML' 8. Paste the AdSense code in the HTML source code of the page 9. Save your updated web page 10. Publish your web page

After taking the steps above, your ads should appear shortly. If you have trouble implementing the Ad Sense code onto your web page, please feel free to respond to this email.

Good luck,

The Google AdSense Team

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:27 AM | Permalink

February 23, 2006

Google Stops Page Creator Enrollment

Gary Price reports that Google has temporarily stopped "people from registering to use" Google Page Creator, which was released this morning. If you go to http://pages.google.com/ you will notice on the bottom right hand corner, a message that reads;

Due to heavy demand, we are unable to offer new accounts for today. If you'd like to be added to our waiting list, please enter your email address.

After submitting your email address in that form, you get taken to a page that reads;

Oops...Thank you for your interest in Google Page Creator! Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience.

How often have we seen Google release a new product and then pull it? Products Google released that I know were pulled soon after (off the top of my head) include; Google Keynote, Google Analytics and so many more products. I guess it is best for Google to go the Gmail Invite route for all its releases.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 12:44 PM | Permalink

Google Offers Web Page Editing and Hosting Service

Google is rolling out a free web page creation and hosting service that uses a simple, web-based, what-you-see is what-you-get interface designed to make it easy for anyone, regardless of knowledge or skill, to publish web pages. More on the new service in today's SearchDay article, Google Introduces Web Page Creator.

Posted by Chris Sherman at 12:01 AM | Permalink

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