Don’t have brains? How about technical know-how? Well, you don’t need them for Google’s newest project, Google Page Creator. You marveled at how they gave out two gigabytes of space to everyone with an email account, now marvel at how they’re giving you web hosting as well. How much space it offers, I can’t say. Perhaps it works off of your Gmail space (which would be the logical thinking). if Google’s going to outdo themselves like they normally do, it’s a sure bet that they’re offering a whole new chunk of space.

It seems to be your normal free host, similar to what AOL Hometowns was but with an HTML editor and access to all of Google’s services. Since it seems to be down for maintenance at the moment, I can’t try it myself to see what it does and how it works its magic, but I can definately see this becoming something in the future.

So, a Google ISP?

Probably not yet, but a step toward it. Most major ISP’s seem to have their own web-creation program or service that lets members set up a spiffy web page with little to no coding or technical knowledge, and Google has just jumped into the game. if you think about it for a moment, Google has been slowly offering everything that an ISP does, even internet. That’s right, Google has been setting up Wi-Fi networks in their headquarters town and in San Francisco, and rumors say that it might be leading up to a nationwide wire-free incident. Such has been dismissed by Google at the moment, but hope isn’t lost yet.

So, let’s tally it up:

What Google’s Got

- mail@gmail.com. With Gmail, they redefined webmail and made other companies redo all of their horrible mail clients and space problems and whatnot.

- Google Talk. AOL’s got an instant messenging program. MSN has one, too. So does Yahoo. It seems like a huge step to being a major service providor and company is… your own IM system. Why wouldn’t Google tread in this area?

- Google. Yep, the plain old search engine. What major internet provider doesn’t have one of these for themselves?

- Google Adsense. Sure, many major companies have tons of ads around, but Google’s got the smarts here. Another nice step.

- Google Page Creator. Similar to something like AOL Hometowns, it may only let you create a single web page for the moment, but it might become a trademark of Google’s that becomes as common as someone’s Blogger.

- mail@yourdomain.com. “Wait, I didn’t know Google had that!” They do! In testing right now, Google is offering Gmail, but at yourdomain.com. Not many details on the service exist, but according to CNet, it’s out there.

What Google Needs To Get

- Internet Service. Okay, so they have it already in some places. But they’ve got nearly everything else every other major ISP and service provider has already - what’s left to give but the actual internet service?

- Google Browser. Swiftwer than Firefox and one thousand times more secure than internet explorer, the Google browser could be the major step to Google dominating the way everyone views the web - especially on their own network, and possibly on the massive amounts of internet they could supply throughout the nation.

Google is just shy of being a serious ISP. Most would say that they’re targested at being an advertising company, and I can say that’s true to a point, but I can also see a split between the company, dividing it into Google Adsense and Google Labs, part of the single company of Google, but working on their own projects and technologiest seperately. perhaps this has alreayd happened, and I live under a rock. Google’s unleashed so much product in the last year, I can only just speculate the future for them. But hosting web pages for free and giving amazing mail accounts for free seems to be a giant step forward in the drection of becoming a free ISP for the masses.