Here’s my line of thought:

Fact: Google is creating all the elements that a business owner needs to start a business online.

- Payment solution (announced recently)
- Blogger to connect with customers
- Advertising (adsense/ adwords)
- email and chat
- Analytics to attract and retain customers efficiently.
- Product exposure tools (Froogle)

One thing they need to increase the market for all these products is to give the little man an easy way to become a virtual store owner. This is how eBay makes a substantial amount of money.

So Google will give people the ability to create their own websites with all the elements they need to become merchants. Google pages is their first take at the tool which will tailor those sites.

Nir Ben-Dor

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