Google starts webpage creation tool

Google has introduced a new do-it-yourself website builder facility. The initiative, known as Google Page Creator, attempts to simplify the creation of web pages with minimal knowledge of HTML and allow non-techies to get a web presence as quickly as possible. As a simplistic way for less-technical people to put up a web page, the free service will compete with products from Microsoft, Apple Computer, Adobe and News Corp.'s MySpace. Individual pages will be hosted at "username.googlepages.com" and each user will be able to store up to 100 megabytes of information, including images. Pages created with Page Creator will be crawled by Google within a few hours, making the content immediately searchable. This is an advantage over other web-site hosts, which can take days to be included in Google's search results. Google has often noted its desire to make all the world's information searchable! Page Creator fits with that goal, especially if it is integrated with content uploaded to the web with the company's other properties like Blogger, Base and Picasa. If combined with Gmail and Google Talk, the service could take on a social-networking flavor, which analysts note Google lacks when compared with Web portal competitors like Yahoo! or openBC. In order to compete with a social site like MySpace, however, Page Creator's customization options will have to increase. In the current beta version, only four basic templates and 41 designs are available, though Google is actively soliciting feedback from beta testers on its site. - Google Sets Sites on User-Generated Web Pages - Build a website with Google - Techtree.com - Newsday - TechNewsWorld - InformationWeek

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