“Google’s Page Creator, which launched today, is yet another tool in the company’s arsenal of web-based services — this one aimed squarely at the web site design market,” Rachel Rosmarin reports for Forbes. “Intended 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 even News Corp.’s MySpace.”
Rosmarin reports, “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.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: We get a message that Apple’s Safari browser is not yet supported. Musings from Mars has more and a screenshot of the Safari error message here.
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Only a matter of time before Safari is supported.
whack google
“”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.”
of which 100% of will be reported to and monitored by the government.
let me get my surprised face out of the car
Google’s strategy is to spread horizontally. But they’re doing it in such a way that no one really cares.
People still think overwhelmingly of ‘search’ when they hear ‘Google’. I think in five years, when they hear ‘Google’, they’ll think ‘What’s Google?’
Safari sucks a big one…use firefox
Let me see if I have this right… because I’m a computer idiot…
Google gives me 2 GB of email storage, but if I want to use them to host my webpage, they give me 100 MB of webpage storage?
WTF?? That sounds backwards to me!
MW: “morning”, as in “but maybe I just got up too early this morning.”
“People still think overwhelmingly of ‘search’ when they hear ‘Google’. I think in five years, when they hear ‘Google’, they’ll think ‘What’s Google?'”
possibly the dumbest comment yet on this site…
people don’t “search,” they “Google.” When your company name has been turned into a verb, you’re not going anywhere…
dumbass…
Sometimes I think I’d be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.
Pretty nice! Very similar to iWeb except it runs in a web browser and doesn’t require you pay for a .Mac membership (yes, I know iWeb allows you to make web pages without .Mac, but its not helpful about it).
I’m sure just like GMail, the safari version will be a long soon.
I couldnt get it to work on Firefox (most recent version) on my MAC either. So – looks likes its a no go for me on either browser. That, in and of itself, is the reason I wont waste my time to even check it out.
They havent supported MACS as a whole with their products, which is really getting old (Even if it is Beta). Google Earth took a while to make it to MAC, the gmail chat is not available in safari, Google chat not available to the MAC (unless you use jabber through ichat), and the list goes on.
I understand we are a small market share, but seriously – Google cant get it right? Pretty lame if you ask me – even for as much as I like google.
I tried to access it, but even as a gmail account user, I get…
Thank you for your interest in Google Page Creator! Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience.
Bummer!! I was hoping to compare it to iWeb.
Will they ever learn that if they make it for Mac (standards compliant) then everyone can use it?! But, make it for Windows, and you wind up with an endless nightmare of tweaks and adjustments.
Works with Firefox for Mac.
Google always talks about supporting the Mac platform but then either doesn’t come through or it takes them FOREVER to do it (witness Google Earth). Sound like anyone else recently? (cough….Adobe)
Mac support is fine on FireFox. I had a website up and running and under 5 minutes.
There really isn’t a reason to be using Safari anymoe with Firefox.
Google does support the Mac platform by supporting Firefox.
ALL MAC USERS STOP USING GOOGLE.
If they can’t be even bothered to make it mac compatible why should we use their search engine.
Lazy gits.
Safari is a heap of buggy, crap code anyway. If I had to count the number of crashes before my morning coffee…just use Firefox.
for email and less for web is that MOST people don’t use their 2GB and so it costs them nothing. But more people would find uses for expensive disk space on the their web site, with downloads and video and podcasts and big photos and everything.
They’ll support Safari–it’s the third most popular browser in the world, they’re not going to forget it. Google Earth is here, it’s great, and Gmail chat works with iChat!
Sheesh, so this is how Google repays Apple for making Google the default (and only) built-in search engine on the Safari toolbar?
WIth friends like these, who needs enemas.
Why it metters if goverment monitors it? if you dont have anything to hide it doesnt mettre enless yoy’r one of the scutty terrorists or a dirty hard pornography maker!
Why is it so hard to support Safari? Does Safari need additional support that other browsers don’t or is it a conscious decision to cause problems for Safari users?
What’s the catch? Free Gmail and now free web pages/storage and, from what I can see, for everyone on the planet!!! Is it only advertising that is paying for this? I read the terms of conditions and is says they can insert ads as they decide they need and (if necessary) will provide legal snooping. But who is paying for this?
To those who had it work in Firefox, what version are you running? I could SEE the pages if I turned off Javascript in the toolbar, but once I turned it back on it gave me a message letting me know my browser wasnt supported. I am using the most recent version of Firefox.
And, in regards to Safari. I switched to Safari about 2 months ago because I was tired of the sluggishness and memory sucking of Firefox. It is a GREAT browser, but for all I do – Safari is doing it ten times better. I now only use Firefox to evaluate web sites with the developer extension. If I had extensions for Safari I would have no use for Firefox. It loads slow, it locks up, and it crashes often for me – Safari has crashed once in the last 2 months.
Back on topic – I think its LAME that google – who is known for their ‘innovation’ (number 2 to apple) cant seem to get it right with products like this? It doesnt make any sense to me.
I got the “we’re too popular” message on Camino. So it works on that browser. Meanwhile, since Camino 1.0 I haven’t looked back at Firefox for the Mac with its ugly square buttons and 1/2 drawn boxes.
You might want to take a look at Flocks, too, which is in the process of becoming quite an interesting open source browser.
HOWEVER…
Lack of immediate Safari support is evil.
“Intended as a <U>simplistic</u> way for less technical people…”
simplistic – adj. unrealistically simple.
“Simplistic” has a slightly derogatory connotation to it. Over simplified, naive, lacking in sophistication. That’s how you want to peg your potential customers… yup, uh-huh. Good one.
I’m not going to use this until Safari is supported. Safari is what I use and I don’t want to put another browser on for a feature that is already in iLife 06.
Eh.
Chain of events.
1. Google becomes very involved in the web industry, makes a lot of products.
2. Starts to make application-ish programs that can be loaded right into the browser – BIG thing.
3. Hires Mozilla developers.
Stops there.
Now do you see why Safari isn’t supported?
Maybe I’m bitter and cynical, but Mozilla and Google most definitely have something going on there..
who cares? really? it works with firefox.
if it was the other way, yes to safari and no to mac firefox would MDN care?
safari isn’t that great of a browser. really. honestly.
Wow. Something that doesn’t automatically launch with Safari.
Makes a nice change
Everyone take a chill pill. Just remember that Google Maps didn’t intially work with Safari either. As long as it works with Firefox, Mac users can use it. I would expect Safari support to follow in the next few weeks.
I dunno what the derivative of all this Safari bashing is, because I find Safari quite refreshing.
Come on guys. If you use a browser for Mac that’s popular, you use Safari or you use Camino. Firefox is just a lame, bulky port of the Windows version which is really, really good, but somehow it isn’t on Mac. If you hate Safari and like Mozilla, Camino is a considerably better choice than Firefox is, and don’t even get me started about the Mozilla suite.
Google can only compete against MICROSOFT, because Microsoft is stupid. So Google does not like APPLE because APPLE will steal the spotlight from it.
If Apple launches a search engine today, GOOGLE IS TOAST.
They know it. so they are anti-apple.
The “google talk” software was never made competible with Apple MAC OS either.
Uhh, Google has nothing against Apple.
They just have something against Safari because of their Mozilla employees. Again, that may just come from cynicism and being bitter, but that’s what I think.
Google is not “toast”. Google will never be “toast”. As somebody said earlier, when your company’s become a verb, you’re not going anywhere.
Safari is sort of hard to accomodate for when you want to make sure stuff is compatible with IE/Windows. It requires diversity which would either increase the amount of time used to develop these things and also maybe cut down on some features, and Google is obsessed with features.
Note that all of this stuff is still in beta. Once it gets fully developed, I’m sure there’ll be Mac support for most of them.
Why would Google hate Apple anyway? They both have the same competitor, Microsoft. They won’t compete with each other until one of them gains serious ground on the other, or if both of them start to come after Microsoft and then get into a quarrel with each other on the way.
Whaaaaaaatever!
MW=going …to go buy me a PC so I can use Google’s web app. (yeah, right)
I don’t care very much for safari.. and i don’t care very much for webpage creation tools either, i prefer to write my own php pages!
John,
Why do you think that iWeb is better than something that is free?
Google can eat my kitty litter.
Never, NEVER underestimate the killing potential of a paraplegic kitten.
I got the “We’re too busy” message on Safari and Camino, so that message proves nothing.
Safari is missing some key elements when it comes to doing any dynamic programming with it. FireFox, Netscape should work fine on the Mac. Hopefully the webkit team will start incorporating some of the more robust programming needed to do stuff like this.
The only thing Safari is missing is support for the “content editable” function that makes it easy to embed a rich text editor in a web page. Webkit is working on that. However, Google isn’t really employing that kind of thing here, and to the extent that they do, there are several excellent rich text editors that work fine in Safari (e.g., Dojo). Don’t think for a minute that Safari is lacking the components needed for dynamic websites. After all, what do you think Dashboard Widgets are made with? Yeah, that’s right… they’re basically little web pages running on the Safari browser engine, “webkit”. I think Dashboard demonstrates that Safari can be one of the very best platforms for dynamic HTML and Ajax around. Every bit as good as Firefox, and much better (in some ways) than IE 6.0.
Rarely use Safari!
Rarely use Safari!