Google Page Creator = Another Hole in the Web's Head
Garrett indicates that if Google’s page creator had increased business functionality it would be a valuable contribution to the web. I disagree.

Even if this product gets as savvy as Yahoo stores with databases, site search, rss feeds and full eCommerce the basic problem will remain. 99% of these people don't really know what they are doing. That is why they use these tools in the first place.

With Web2.0 all around us and highly functional sites like LinkedIn, MySpace and Match allowing people to create online content that is building personal interactions in ways that could only be dreamed of years ago, am I seriously supposed to care that Google allows people to create a free web page?

In Garrett's post he closes with "I'll leave you with this thought - what percentage of the time has the information you've been looking for online been on a geocities site?"

With this I couldn't agree more.

Furthermore, I would like to call some attention to the fact that the world now has one more highly publicized source where ugly, useless pages can be created at bulk and published to the internet for none of us to ever find useful. I guess that’s Google’s problem to solve when they decide what to put in the SERPs for the rest of us.

Throwing another typewriter into a room full of monkeys is not going to get them any closer creating Shakespeare and following it up with a cash register will get them no closer to building Amazon.
Adam Schultz - MarketSmart Interactive | permalink | +marktd |