Yes elvirs, I do have 3 websites created on googlepages.com and one of my oldest site is a website directory Take a look at my sites. http://linksbucket.googlepages.com http://tagsbucket.googlepages.com http://smsbucket.googlepages.com yes these all 3 sites are with the word "bucket" :d Google is treating these .googlepages.com sites just like other sites ( I think ). Are you planning to make your site on googlepages.com???
Google was treating Blogger blogs well, but many people discovered it and started to publish all spam on blogger they stoped giving blogger priority. And I thought may be this time we can experiment with Google Pages No, if its worth it I would experiment with some niches, like how they rank and convert