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Google Slowly Closing Page Creator
By: Philipp Lenssen 2008-08-05 As Digital Inspiration noticed, Google on their Page Creator About page says: We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs. Google Page Creator is or was Googles general web page creation program (Google also offers Knol to create knowledge articles, and Blogger to start a blog; other tools of theirs, like Google Documents, can output a webpage too). In a closed help group thread on the subject, Google states: Page Creator has always been a Google Labs project (Labs is our technology playground where we let users test-drive experimental products and give us feedback so we can innovate more quickly). Since launching Page Creator in Labs, weve learned a lot and have incorporated those lessons into Google Sites. We think the Labs program, which allows users to try new things before theyre fully baked, lets us innovate faster and ultimately create the best possible products. User Andr Banen, whos very helpful in the Google help groups, tells me, Personally Im not very happy with this decision. Google Page Creator offered me the possibility to enter JavaScript code into web pages and to use iframes to embed content, something that Google Sites currently -wont- allow. Comments Tag: Google, Page Creator Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Have a bookmark! - ![]() View All Articles by Philipp Lenssen About the Author: Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views & news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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