I can’t stay away from beta tests…..even for things that aren’t very useful to me.

Because of this, I had to try Google Page Creator. I have no other reason but curiousity to try out the service. So I created a simple page and published it.

Using the Page Creator is very simple. It’s not something like Dreamweaver obviously, but it gets the job done when you’re trying to put up a quick and dirty page from a template.

The one that makes me curious about Page Creator is how Google will index the pages in their SERPs. In the “About Page Creator” section, in a FAQ, Google addresses that question:

Will the pages I create show up in search engine results?
The pages you create can be crawled by Google within a few hours of publication. Other search engines may also index your pages as they periodically crawl the internet.

Will Google give preferential treatment to web pages created with Google Page Creator in Google search results?
No, we won’t. Web pages created using Google Page Creator will never receive any preferential treatment of any kind in Google search results.

So although Google won’t be giving preferential treatment to the pages, the pages will be crawled faster, which could be considered preferential I suppose.

I’m not sure how Google sees Page Creator fitting in to the overall web marketplace. I’m fairly certain that businesses won’t be using it for their pages, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see bloggers setting up pages and cross linking between their blogs and pages at Google.

For more information on Google Page Creator, here are a few articles:
Google Introduces Web Page Creator

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

Google Page Creator Discussion (at Webmaster World)

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