Google should be praised

February 23, 2006 By

I see a lot of bloggers saying “so” about Google’s new Web Page Creator. I think bloggers often miss the larger conversation that we should be having: the Office Live team tells me that 45% of small businesses don’t have a Web site at all.

Congrats to Google for trying to do something to bring more people onto the Web. That’s the conversation we should be having.

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  • colin

    OK, so now many business DO have a website, and some of them have or link to a nice map of how to get there… but what’s really missing is the “Parking direction”…!

  • colin

    OK, so now many business DO have a website, and some of them have or link to a nice map of how to get there… but what’s really missing is the “Parking direction”…!

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  • Christopher Coulter

    Reminds me of AOL Homepages, anyone using this for a biz, sure ain’t caring about marketing, just get a domain and hire some competent designers, but you know what, if they have existed this long without a web page, maybe they don’t need it. Google praised, oh brother. Google sure is striking out with all this beta’ish crap. And Microsoft copy-catting a strike-out, double irony.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Reminds me of AOL Homepages, anyone using this for a biz, sure ain’t caring about marketing, just get a domain and hire some competent designers, but you know what, if they have existed this long without a web page, maybe they don’t need it. Google praised, oh brother. Google sure is striking out with all this beta’ish crap. And Microsoft copy-catting a strike-out, double irony.

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  • Christopher Coulter

    I find it funny, when it’s being universally panned, as a return to evil godforsaken 1997 HTML, that Scoble bends over backwards to praise them. The phrase ‘killing with kindness’ plays out here.

    Praise just for BEING there? Ummm no, quality counts. Should you praise the late Yugo for attempting to make automobiles. They were “trying to do something”. It’s NOT the attempt you praise, it’s the END RESULTS. Now coming from someone at Microsoft, easy to see why ‘attempts’ are valued higher than RESULTS.

  • Christopher Coulter

    I find it funny, when it’s being universally panned, as a return to evil godforsaken 1997 HTML, that Scoble bends over backwards to praise them. The phrase ‘killing with kindness’ plays out here.

    Praise just for BEING there? Ummm no, quality counts. Should you praise the late Yugo for attempting to make automobiles. They were “trying to do something”. It’s NOT the attempt you praise, it’s the END RESULTS. Now coming from someone at Microsoft, easy to see why ‘attempts’ are valued higher than RESULTS.

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  • http://www.bigpawsonly.com/ big dogs

    I think this is great! I think this is going to help make the web a prettier place, in terms of amateurs building content and design. Hopefully people will be less inclined to make geocities like sites.

  • http://www.bigpawsonly.com big dogs

    I think this is great! I think this is going to help make the web a prettier place, in terms of amateurs building content and design. Hopefully people will be less inclined to make geocities like sites.

  • http://jaseone.wordpress.com/ jaseone

    Isn’t it Office Live that has the 1997 HTML? Google’s HTML well XHTML to be precise is pretty clean.

  • http://jaseone.wordpress.com/ jaseone

    Isn’t it Office Live that has the 1997 HTML? Google’s HTML well XHTML to be precise is pretty clean.

  • Susan Kuchinskas

    So, how come no one from the Office Live team showed up last night to demo at the SF Tech Session? A lot of people were talking about it, trying to figure how it fits in.

  • Susan Kuchinskas

    So, how come no one from the Office Live team showed up last night to demo at the SF Tech Session? A lot of people were talking about it, trying to figure how it fits in.

  • http://snet.ms/ Sniper

    Thats Crazy sNet

  • http://snet.ms/ Sniper

    Thats Crazy sNet

  • http://realtorweblog.xptechsupport.com/ Bill Nadraszky

    I agree with you Robert but the on thing that may happen with more small business using the Google page creator is incongruent marketing messages such as visit us on the web at http://www.mycompany.com or email at company@myisp.com. I see this up here in Calgary on the rear windows of cars all the time. You have to wonder how many small business know or care that this is a mixed message on the quality of their product.

  • http://realtorweblog.xptechsupport.com Bill Nadraszky

    I agree with you Robert but the on thing that may happen with more small business using the Google page creator is incongruent marketing messages such as visit us on the web at http://www.mycompany.com or email at company@myisp.com. I see this up here in Calgary on the rear windows of cars all the time. You have to wonder how many small business know or care that this is a mixed message on the quality of their product.

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