Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - February 23, 2006 - Several online sources including Google Engineer, Matt Cutts' Blog have confirmed that a new Google web hosting product is currently live and available at: http://pages.google.com.

Interestingly, Google's move into web hosting was predicted in a September 24, 2004 SitePoint article authored by Derek Vaughan and entitled, 'Why Google Will Defeat Yahoo! in the Web Hosting War'.

The product is named Google Page Creator, and according to Google as described on its product page: ''Create your own web pages, quickly and easily. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.

• No technical knowledge required.
  Build high-quality web pages without having to learn HTML or use complex software.

• What you see is what you'll get.
  Edit your pages right in your browser, seeing exactly how your finished product will look every step along the way.

• Don't worry about hosting.
  Your web pages will live on your own site at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com

Google Page Creator is still in an early testing phase. If you're interested in taking it for a test drive, login with your Gmail account to begin making pages.''

Matt Cutts presents examples of the templates, and his pro-Google analysis of the new product at: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-page-creator/.

It is also being reported that Google's Page Creator will not offer e-commerce capabilities at the present time.

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