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    Blogger (service)

    Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. "plainlinks">The service itself is located at , and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com.

    History

    *On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format.
    *In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. About a year later, Pyra Labs co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google.
    *In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.
    *On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email.
    *On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and included some new features.
    *In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta.
    *By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers.
    *In October 2008, Turkey temporarily blocked access to Blogger.turkey>

    Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007. September, 2007.

    Redesign

    As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a users Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.

    Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private b read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger+(service)

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