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Google unveils webpage creator

Friday February 24th 2006, 1:38 pm
Filed under: Newspapers

Google launched on Thursday a service that lets people create their own webpages hosted by the internet giant. 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 websites and webpages, 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. (CNet News,February 24, 2006)

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