Google Sites; aiming its sights higher?

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Historically, Google Sites has always been this quirky website platform: free for users, but always with a lackluster feature list.

Recently, Google re-released their website platform (rebranding it previous service as Classic Sites) with an entire platform makeover and offering its users the ability to bond a domain to their site for free.

The catch, a small and unobtrusive “Made with the new Google Sites, an effortless way to create beautiful sites in the footer.

Themes and customization of the new Google Sites are limited…in fact there are only 5 themes, but with multiple colorways for each theme. But the ability for anyone to be able to create a simple multi-page site, or starter portfolio with photos, mobile responsive design, and YouTube integration are all a plus.

What I find odd is that Google still has Blogger, and it is an entirely separate product still. It would almost make since to have Google unite the two eventually, and provide Google with a product similar to WordPress.