Google Releases Google Page Creator (Link)

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Google released today (Google Page Creator). It is a very easy way to create a very simple and professional looking home page. I thought first that you have to upload all the created pages to my dedicated server, but I found out that the pages are saved in Google server. Now I have the address (fahadinc.googlepages.com). Looks like it took (fahadinc) subdomain from my Gmail address (fahadinc@gmail.com).

"It's as easy to create a page on the Web as it is to create one on a word processor," Justin Rosenstein, the product manager for Google Page Creator was quoted as saying in a media report. You don't need to know HTML or use Javascript since pages are edited in a user's browser. Users are allowed 100MB of storage on the service.

CNET reported, "With Page Creator, the company has drawn a distinction between Web sites and Web pages, saying that a page is a single document with its own Web address, whereas a site is a collection of pages with a common subdomain, or the xxxxxxx.com portion of the URL. "During this initial testing period, people can create only pages, not sites." Google said. "

In order to be able to start working on this new tool, you need to sign in using your Gmail account. If you don't have one, well ... you need to have one! Hmm, I wonder if Google Page Creator is going to be as popular as Yahoo's GeoCities, MySpace, or other free web page creating tools.

And in case you are wondering, web pages created using Google Page Creator will never receive any preferential treatment of any kind in Google search results according to Google.

Update (Same Day): Looks like Google temporarily suspended signing up new accounts for its Web site hosting service due to heavy demand. "Due to heavy demand, we are unable to offer new accounts for today," Google said on the Page Creator site. Suspending signing new accounts in the first the service is released? Google should have known better and should have been better prepared.

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