Google Pages Reviewed

Tam Hanna writes "We got access to a Google Pages review account. Get the full scoop on what Google Pages can do." The gist of it is that "Google Pages Is Not For You." It's for your mom ;)

Duped Trash Instead of News

[eldavojohn]

So I couldn't help but notice that this article is just [slashdot.org] a dupe [slashdot.org].

Apparently, a link to a blog with a couple paragraphs and screenshots of a service that has been covered before is newsworthy. Not in my opinion.

Oh, and if you go to that blog that's linked in the article, there is a "Contact Us" tab which results in the same e-mail that the author of this article (Tam Hanna) linked to their name. This isn't a review, it's a "Oooh, this is neat" article which is odd considering I have a Google Pages account and it's not that neat--it's functional and simplistic but limiting. And please do notice the ads (some by Google) surrounding Tam Hanna's blog. So they'll be making some cash off the Slashdot effect. What a tool Slashdot has become.

If you want an example of something they rejected to bring you a duped article, here's one I submitted this morning that some of you may or may not care about:

About a week ago, Robert Jordan [wikipedia.org] wrote a letter to Locus [locusmag.com] in which he stated he has amyloidosis. Amyloidosis is a rare blood disease that leaves patients with a median of one (no treatment) to four (with treatment) years left to live. He confirmed this on his publisher's website [tor.com]. This is devastating news for fantasy enthusiasts but on his blog [dragonmount.com] he spoke about the Wheel of Time series: "Worse comes to worst, I will finish A Memory of Light, so the main story arc, at least, will be completed." Let us all wish him a permanent recovery--if he can write the epic tomes of the Wheel of Time, surely beating amyloidosis will be trivial.

so yea, it is for your mom

[escay]

FTFA, this sums it up -

What is the difference to other web hosters? Google Pages lets you create your site online, but it has neither MySQL, PHP, nor FTP support. You see its NO replacement for a common web hosting service, but it is almost PERFECT for users who want to publish their last holiday photos or theirselves. They need no knowledge about web hosting and HTML developing. Of course FTP is important for professional webmasters, but private users dont need FTP or MySQL. They need an good but easy web hosting solution.

Well...

[O'Laochdha]

Did anyone really expect anything else? These kinds of webpages have a long history of being geared towards the mass-market, and the mass-market is semi-luddites. The primary market couldn't use HTML if their lives depended on it, let alone script anything. And one has to recognize that a site that does the things the average geek would want it to do would get too much traffic to give out for free. They can't really afford to have interesting websites on a service like this, or they'd go bankrupt.

WARNING - Link Redirect

[rGauntlet]

Looks like they didn't appreciate the extra traffic to their site, and now it redirects to the FBI website.

Re:WARNING - Link Redirect

[mporcheron]

maybe he's contacted the FBI to start shutting the net down after Reg didn't do much

We have server problems

[Alexander Gratz]

Hi,

i am editor at TamsPalm.

We currently have server problems. Probably someone hacked into our server and linked to the FBI site.

We'll try to fix this as soon as possible.

Alexander Gratz

What did I do wrong?

[Call Me Black Cloud]

I clicked on the link and ended up here:

http://www.fbi.gov/?2006/03/29/google-page-creator -review/ [fbi.gov]

BTW, there's no review there.

Re:What did I do wrong?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi,
Tam Hanna once again. We were DOSSed, and my web host decided to forward the a$$face to FBI...
Best regards
Tam Hanna