From Dan Farber at CNET:
Google is applying its guerrilla tactics, ingratiating itself with users and hoping that by the time it has more security, integration, service-level agreements, and less onerous terms of service, the battle to conquer the enterprise–and tweak Microsoft–will be won. It’s not a short-term campaign…
Google Sites is not enterprise-class. It doesn’t claim to be enterprise-class, unless you would define the category as wiki tools that:
• are not deeply integrated into corporate infrastructure
• lack service-level agreements
• require that you give the host a “perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and nonexclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services”
Now that we’re appropriately warned not to use it and just out of curiosity from Zoli Erdos on Google Sites:
Google now has a pretty good and easy web-page creator with some wiki features made user-friendly, and a half-hearted attempt at integrating the rest of the Apps empire using Sites. Perhaps they get it right in the next release.
From Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog:
Is this the future of the web? Every URL is going to have rel=nofollow?..
Every URL I create is going to be blocked from link based trust metrics like PageRank? That’s just dumb. I’d rather use another wiki system that doesn’t penalize my linking behavior.
I realize that your intention is to fight spam but you should pursue and algorithmic approach. Blacklisting the entire Internet is NOT the solution.
I’m not sure what the big deal about “nofollow” is as most of us simply employed java-script links prior to it’s arrival on the scene which still to this day are non-followable by SEs.
Thanks. This stuff is over my head. I was also gonna link about how this is another problem for the low cost web hosts, but the numbers smelled a little funny.
If nofollow is used for advertising links then nofollow isn’t a big problem for anyone except the advertisers who buy links primarily for higher page rankings but the use of nofollow in regular blog linking (as is the case with standard Wordpress, Blogger and Typepress installations) cripples small publishers hoping to compete with the major domains and it appears to me that Google– the owners of several major domains– and the other internet giants are working very hard to cripple as many small publishers as they can possibly cripple in order to secure their place as the 800 pound giant.
Be very wary of becoming googlependent and googledicted as Google is to web publishers what crack cocaine is to drug addicts.
For the hobby blogger none of this is of any real concern but for those of us who try to earn revenue from blogging this is a very real problem.
I was doing a grandiose post on how Google was the ruination of everything, but got bored.
Caveat emptor.