Google Introduces Page Creator

Seoulstriker writes "Google has introduced an AJAX web-publishing application called Google Page Creator. The app is great for getting whatever photos, information, files you want published, and it doesn't have to be in the typical blog format. The published site is hosted at the gmail user page. There are several templates and page formats to work from, and as far as I can tell, everything is WYSIWYG. The published HTML is very clean, but it does have some leftover fragments from editing pages repeatedly. If you want to be precise, you can manually edit the HTML. There is a Google Groups page available for the service. It took about 30 seconds to get a rudimentary page online." PC World has a quick rundown on the service at their site.

Just what we need

[RagingFuryBlack]

Woohoo. Lets see if google can pull this off better then freewebs. I hope google is prepared to deal with millions of 12 year olds creating seizure pages =D.

Patent violation!

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't this violate US Patent number 7,000,180?

Re:Oops!

[Anonymous Coward]

Good lord. We Slashdotted Google. I guess those rumours about the impending death of the internet were true...

Why Google is still cool

[theskipper]

A chuckle from the FAQ:

11. I don't want my landlady to find out about my pet ferret. How can I unpublish my pages?

Odd

[broothal]

That's odd - I just signed in, and it said "This page is locked by another user". Now where did I put my tinfoil hat...

Re:Page Locked.

[Professor_UNIX]

Break the Lock... What are Locks....?

They are used to bring a boat from a waterway at one elevation to a waterway at another elevation. Usually found in canals and such. If it's going uphill then the boat goes into the lock, the doors shut, and water fills up the lock until it is at a higher elevation, then the other doors open and it floats on its way. The reverse is done for going downhill.

Oh, you mean locks in a computer sense? They stop two competing processes from writing to the same area of disk/memory/whatever. A process locks what it is working on and then releases the lock when its done so another process can lock the area and write to it. If two processes were to write to an area at the same time without any kind of flow control they'd just end up overwriting each other.

Re:file hosting limit

[garcia]

Not sure if there's a limit to the data transferred.

Well, it sure does look that way ;-)

Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now. This is not because of anything you did; it's just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and recommend you try reloading this page.

Either that or the Slashdot Effect has been renamed The Hiccups.

Re:Browser Support

[bartyboy]

Just go to www.ie7.com [ie7.com] to upgrade browsers.

Re:How good is it

[kfg]

. . .the days of everyone wanting his or her own webpage just to rant out a bunch of poorly stucture meme-junk are over as well. That's what blogs are for.

And thank God you don't need a webpage for that. I, for one, welcome our direct to the mind meme-junk beaming overlords.

KFG

Gotta love editable service agreement windows.

[cswiii]

1. Highlight the entire agreement that you have to agree to abide by.
2. Delete it.
3. Enter the text "I agree that Google will pay me $1 Million Dollars (*cue Dr. Evil*) if Page Creator is ever unavailable for me to use."
4. Profit!

Re:The Shotgun Effect

[Guanix]

Excel and VBA.

100mb eh?!

[wwmedia]

100mb eh?!

looks like google is going to become a dump for the warez comunity!

1. open an account
2. upload 100mb part of archive
3. repeat untill latest hollywood movies is uploaded onto several accounts
4. spread the links for the uploaded files far and wide!

BeVeryEvil.googlepages.com

[greggish]

I just threw this up real fast...

http://beveryevil.googlepages.com/ [googlepages.com] ...just linked some images relating to google's censorship in China. I like the idea of having google host it with "googlepages.com" in the url. :)