I just took a look at the new Google Page Creator Beta. The html editor implementation is top notch and it appears, at least from the help section, that publishing pages using Google page creator ensures that your content is spidered within a few hours – instead of a few days, weeks or months.

4. 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.

5. 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.

You are allowed up to 100 MB of storage for images, but there is some chatter about a restrictive TOS. I haven’t had a chance to comb through it yet, but will try to post more if I find anything.

The only thing that I can really find in their TOS that is the least bit restrictive is the following:

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the general public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt and publish such Content on Google services solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services. This license terminates when such Content is removed from the Google service to which you originally submitted. Google reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google services and use that Content in connection with any of the services offered by Google.  Google furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion.

Which doesn’t seem any more restrictive than any other free web hosting (or even blog hosting) TOS agreement around. In fact, I expected that my site would at least have some contextual advertising, given Google’s business model, but so far I haven’t seen a bit. There is this in the TOS regarding advertising:

Some Google services are supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions on the service. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by Google on its services are subject to change. You agree that Google shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred by you as a result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on Google services.

So potentially there will be advertising on the web sites. If there is adsense displayed, I wonder if it will be credited to my own adsense account?

One more potential pitfall. The domain name used for the page is gmailaccountname.googlepages.com – IMHO, I would think that this would give harvesters easy access to gmail account names. This may not be a big deal considering that 1) Google has AWESOME spam filtering and 2) somehow or another they get my email address anyway.

Via Digg – Google releases new Page Creator

"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." Looks good to me!