Google's New Webpage Maker Temporarily Suspended

Posted on February 23, 2006

CRN reports that Google Page Creator, Google's new webpage making service, has been temporarily suspended. CRN also says that the webpage maker is not for blogs -- Google still recommends Blogger for blogs.

To use the service, a person must have a Google account and a Gmail address. The latter is Google's Webmail service. Pages are uploaded by a single click, and the URL includes a person's Gmail user name, i.e. http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com.
The service has a 100MB limit for pages and uploaded files. The tools are recommended for people who want to build simple, static Web sites, not e-commerce or interactive sites. For people who plan to update their pages regularly, then the company recommends the use of its online blogging service, Blogger.

Google is obviously very late to the free homepage scene as the Blog Herald explains here and in a song about Google Pages that Duncan Riley at the Blog Herald wrote here. The service Google really should be working on is Orkut -- instead they have kept it invite only and let MySpace get the 57 million users.