Google Pages
February 23rd, 2006 by Michael Gray in SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
So I’ve got a quick little experiment running over here. First impressions scripting is turned off, you can’t even run some basic javascript to print out the current date and time. So will people use it to try and get some link love off of a Google subdomain, or will they use it stick a big old “spammer located here” sign with links to their competition?
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February 23rd, 2006 at 11:26 am
Seems like the toy is broken already…. due to heavy demand, and so on… they won’t let people create those pages any more.
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:34 am
[...] Why would Google have any interest in competing in a market as heavily populated as web hosting, without the ability to do so properly, and with a shoddy service as Google Pages now is. Everyone, including Nik Cubrilovic, Pete Cashmore, Mark, and GrayWolf, have touted how incomplete this service feels. [...]
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:00 pm
That was my first thought also, but my guess is that Google will explicitly undervalue Pages links. We’ll just have to wait a few months and see.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
I figured that was going to happen that’s why I did mine first thing this morning.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:15 pm
It seems a little late in the game for free web hosting. When they came out with free email it was something different with 1GB of storage. So why only offer 100MB (read it somewhere, but couldn’t find the official amount on Google) of web space? …Although, ad-free is nice.
It would be interesting to see if it becomes a spammers haven.
February 28th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Ok. It cached for me without linking to it.
February 28th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Forgot to mention the date - it was cached on the 26th.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
[...] shoddy service as Google Pages now is. Everyone, including Nik Cubrilovic, Pete Cashmore, Mark, and GrayWolf, have touted how incomplete this service [...]