Google come out with a new website publishing tools for office workers.This tool will assist office workers to setup simple websites which takes direct aim at Microsoft’s rival SharePoint franchise.

Google Sites, as the new site publishing service is known, is a scaled back version of JotSpot, an easy-to-edit service for organizations and individuals to set up and edit Web sites that Google had acquired 16 months ago for undisclosed terms.

This new service is the latest push for business and educational users to into the market, actively allows the biggners to organize and share digital information to organize content and share data such as Web links, calendars, photos, videos, presentations and widgets to maintain sites easily.

“Creating a team website has always been too complicated, requiring dedicated hardware and software as well as programming skills,” Dave Girouard, general manager of Google’s Enterprise unit said.

This New tool is easy to use version of Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software helps the users inside an organization to share documents and maintain calendars on secure websites .

SharePoint, which requires organizations to buy their own hardware and software that run with costs from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Google Sites is hosted on Google computers and is free to users of Google Apps.

“We think this is SharePoint-like, but better,” Girouard said in an interview.

Basic sites are free or carry a small monthly per-user fee, but organisations have purchased fuller-featured versions of Google Apps that provide for centralized technical management.

Google Sites puts control of Web sites into the hands of regular office workers rather than an organization’s network administrators or technical support desk, Girouard said.

Google Apps offers a suite of word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation software that let groups of users to edit and view documents over the Web, together with e-mail and basic personal Web site migrations.

Google Sites enables any user invited to join a site to edit pages without requiring knowledge of Web coding or design. Any information published to the site is searchable by visitors with permission to use the site, the company said.

“Google Sites is relatively easy to use and free,” said Rebecca Wettemann, an analyst with technical consulting firm Nucleus Research of Wellesley, Massachusetts. “Google is making people think differently about how businesses use the Web.”

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