Google Groups Revamped

Yesterday, Google Groups team announced a new revamped version of Google Groups which is publicly available at groups-beta.google.com. This announcement comes a week after Google Reader was given a new UI.

The new homepage is now bit sleeker and cleaner than the previous one. Group owners can now create a welcome message, upload a group logo and customize fonts and colors; Members of the group can also collectively create a group webpage using integrated Google Page Creator, Google Groups now boasts a file section where users can upload all their files and share it with fellow members.

This move from Google gives me a feeling that the gap between Yahoo Groups and its Google counterpart is reducing. I was expecting Google Groups to get some AJAX goodies like Google Reader or Gmail, anyway its still usable. File upload and Page feature sounds cool, hopefully it will give some interaction between Group Members.

Will Google Groups kill Yahoo Groups ?

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This post was published by on October 5, 2006

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