February 23, 2006 6:00 AM PST
Google unveils Web page creator
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Google Page Creator, which is in beta, has sample layouts and lets people type in content, upload images and publish their pages, without knowing HTML. People can create multiple linked pages and are allowed 100MB of storage on the service.
The free service requires a Gmail account and supports either Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0, or higher.
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," Google said, people can create only pages, not sites.
Google already owns Blogger, a company that enables people to create blogs. The company also recently launched a service offering hosted e-mail accounts with an individual's chosen domain, instead of Gmail.
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Hmmmmmm......this little company may have thier first licensee.
This isn't about what little companies are going to get eaten alive. To be honest, if something like this is enough to kill your business, you weren't good enough to stay in the game.
No, this is about content, finding it first, and being able to control its venue.
They'll get folks to do their blogs on Blogger, personal websites on GooglePages, mail with Gmail, etc. All of this lets them scan pages sooner than Yahoo, MSN, or the other engines, thus it is an advantage to get users to literally deliver content directly to them. Plus I would have to think it is possible for Google to block Yahoo, MSN, and others from crawling content on their own servers, but that would be evil, and this is Google after all. (minor sarcastic grin)
Adsnese and Adwords are strong programs for them, exactly because you put their code into your sites, they become aware of them quicker, and have a better idea of what is out there.
I've wondered how Google expected to stay ahead of the search game, this seems to duck-tail with everything else to answer that question. People may find Google truly has a stronger grip on the market than people generally understood.
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While people are busy, then they have less time to concentrate and create a real google killer. =)
Google's just keeping folks occupied and half these things they are just throwing out there, to keep people guessing at what they are really doing. =)
It's like google is now in web pages...maybe, no they are in blogs...maybe, no they are building a worldwide wireless heavy G system...maybe, no they are in telecom and voice over ip...maybe...no they are in newspaper advertising...maybe
It's a page from Microsoft's book, as the list gets bigger, competitors can't focus. =)
Notice...they said only for web pages...not yet for web sites/domains...even their hints are aimed at muddling the competition's brain. =)
Good show Google! It's fun to watch! =)
of creating a Web page while wearing training wheels. But, for
most of us who have been on the Internet a long time, some
control over pages or sites we create has become a given.
Furthermore, I think many of us ONs (original Netters) have burnt
out on creating a webpage at every portal we participate in. That
went out in the Talk City and Tripod days among the people I
know.
no way." That is, that Google has engaged in unfair competition
by using ads to fund itself. (No profits yet, remember.) S.K.
and the sock puppet make an amazing error -- conflating
advertising of a sector of business with being in that business
itself. Google is not a Realtor. It is up to actual Realtors to sell
homes. The most any ad service can do is offer the listings of
real estate to as broad an audience as it can accomplish. The
fact that Google can reach a wide audience is not inherently
anti-competitive. For that to be true, it would have to prevent
other search engines from reaching wide audiences. The fact
that other search engines also have broad audiences for their
ads proves that isn't occurring.
I believe the search engine the rebel(s) are touting will suffer
Internet anoxia. Most people using search engines just want
the quickest, most accurate search they can get. Frivolous
promises from the host will not persuade users to leave better
search engines.
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by kookaburrak
February 24, 2006 4:39 PM PST
- See http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/2/emw349397.htm - this patent appears to be certainly passed the application phase...I agree that it is so vague and so much similar technology already exists to make this ridiculous - but here it is...
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