Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.

BlogSpot is banned at work, but is this similar to the 'Getting British Business Online' (<a href="http://www.gbbo.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gbbo.co.uk/</a>) thing in the UK?<p>Hmmm, I suppose not, as GBBO seems to be a partnership offer. Still, I think more people should be aware of it :)

Great boost for small business in India who wants to make their presence more visible outside their towns/cities.

It's sad that Google would associate themselves with an overage hosting company as pathetic as Hostgator.

They recently launched the same thing for Sweden: <a href="http://www.dittforetagonline.se/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dittforetagonline.se/</a>

just think on all those web development houses that are about to struggle... It reminds me of one comment that talked about how google gave things for free, killing innovation on those areas, and they killing the product...<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3112444" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3112444</a>

Hostgator has an affiliate program offering $100 per sales. Will that be used to cover the initial costs? Just thinking.

This has been available in the UK for a long time, I got a few .co.uk's the problem is you do need to use their google tools, changing the DNS information required me emailing the service and they did it manually which is why it's designed for small business.

Anybody else a bit sad that it's all in English rather than Hindi and Bengali? I can't read either, but having an option to read/create it in your native language would certainly speed up acceptance...

for small and medium enterprises, this is a great opportunity. But i don't know if this would really increase web presence among small businesses as they are inclined to traditional methods. I'm from India, and I've tried personally with some small shop owners. But they don't understand the need to go web, especially in Tier II and III cities.

This is great stuff. One major hickup solved for SMB's . Good service going in hand with great support .

Why doesn't Google promote innovation in United States? US is going through a pretty big crisis.