While it certainly looks nifty Googles TOS can sometimes leave much to be desired. Specifically Section 5.
Page Creator: Google’s stealth word processor
Wednesday night, Google Page Creator (via TechCrunch) went live. The service allows anyone with a Gmail address to create pages using a web-based editor.
Pages are saved at http://username.googlepages.com/.
I think there’s more going on here than a simple website-creation tool. To me, this looks like the first iteration of a web-based word processor. Add a spell-checker and a few other bits of functionality and you start to get someting akin to Apple’s Pages. It’s certainly no Word-killer. But Word is overkill for most people, anyway.
I expect that Steve Gillmor will have something to say about this on Thursday.
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[...] I wonder if Google has patented its spray and pray technology? Froogle, Google Catalogs, Google Base, Google Blog Search and the new Google Pages…it just feels like Google is throwing everything out there to see what sticks. While it’s tempting to to say that Google Pages is part of some grand plan, I’m not so sure. And I’m not the only one to have doubts - Nik Cubrilovic is asking some tough questions, too. [...]
[...] No one is actually talking about it. [...]
the first iteration of a web-based word processor
Maybe there’s something to how Google doesn’t call this a web-based word processor, even though it kind of looks like one. I’ve been thinking about how maybe word processors as we know them are on the way out. (Just yesterday, you were saying how you hardly ever fired one up anymore.) Because of the web, the kind of documents people want now are different from what they wanted ten years ago. They still want print documents, sure, but there’s much better desktop publishing software for that now, too.
My two cents.
[...] Update: On a related Google - MS Office watch note, Matthew Gifford thinks Google Pages is a stealth word processor. The guys at Writely (which I use regularly now) can’t be too pleased to hear that. [...]
[...] Favorite link(s) for the week: - EatChicago.net: I Won’t Miss The Berghoff - Matt’s post on the Google Page Creator. Personally, I think he’s spot-on thinking this could be the first version of an online word processor from Google. [...]