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Google Release Free Website Service

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Google Pages

Google have launched Google Page Creator, a free website creation tool.

Perhaps best described as Geocities for the 21st century, Page Creator takes the Google AJAX magic and applies it to website design. The process is simple, albeit, at this time, a little buggy.

In a fashion remarkably similar to Powerpoint, users can pick from a number of themes (or change them on the go) and text layouts. It makes use of a rather clever What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, so users don’t have to face the prospect of editing HTML (but the option exists). Best of all, in true ground breaking fashion, Google lets you have 100MB of space for free, and it doesn’t even put ads on your homepage.

It’s all very easy; of course, that’s the idea. Google have identified an area of the web which has garnered little interest in the last few years. “Free” providers traditionally have provided a lack lustre offering designed to try and persuade people to go up to pay-for options. No longer. Google Pages sees the company delve into a natural but new field, and will no doubt be popular.

Sign-up for the service

Source:Neowin.net

Google Admits Desktop Security Risk

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Businesses have been warned by research company Gartner that the latest Google Desktop Beta has an “unacceptable security risk,” and Google agrees.

On Feb. 9, Google unveiled Google Desktop 3, a free, downloadable program that includes an option to let users search across multiple computers for files. To do that, the application automatically stores copies of files, for up to a month, on Google servers. From there, copies are transferred to the user’s other computers for archiving. The data is encrypted in transmission and while stored on Google servers.

Source: Neowin.net

Google descends on Israel

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The internet search giant has promised that all of its services will be translated to Hebrew and moved into Israel within 18 months as the company’s grip on the web tightens.

Google appears to have put a lot of work into the Israeli operation, as the new Hebrew branch comes loaded with a CEO and trained staff.

Meir Brand, CEO of Google Israel revealed: “We discovered that the Israeli surfer has unique characteristics that the American surfer does not have.

“Israelis are chronic searchers. The search is the main use they make of the internet, while for Americans, the main use of the internet is email,” he added.

It seems, however, that Google’s main focus is on advertising. In Israel 15% of all online adverts appear on search engines, whereas in the US this figure is as high as 40%. Google have seen the gap and are closing in before their rivals do.

Source: Neowin.net

Google censors itself for China

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Leading internet company Google has said it will censor its search services in China in order to gain greater access to China’s fast-growing market.

Google has offered a Chinese-language version of its search engine for years but users have been frustrated by government blocks on the site.

The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn – which it will censor itself to satisfy Beijing’s hardline rulers.

Google argued it would be more damaging to pull out of China altogether.

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