Google Page Creator Closed to New Users
Web page creation and hosting service attracted too many users, search giant says.
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
Google launched an early test version of a Web page creation and hosting service on Thursday and hours later stopped accepting sign-ups, citing overwhelming demand.
The Mountain View, California, search giant describes the free Google Page Creator as a browser-based tool that requires no knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) or any other programming languages.
Google promises that non-technical users can create, in a matter of minutes, "attractive, functional" Web pages, which the company will then host for free. No software has to be downloaded.
Hitting Its Limits
Google all along intended to accept a limited number of users in this early test phase, and it reached that limit within hours of making the service available on Thursday, the company said in a statement.
Google expects to resume accepting sign-ups "very soon" and has set up a waiting list online.
The service is, at the moment, a tool for creating individual Web pages, not Web sites, according to Google.
Users must have a subscription to the company's free Gmail Web mail service. Google has set a 100MB storage limit per Google Page Creator user for pages and uploaded files.
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