It was a short leap, then, to begin wondering what wider applications this new software might have. And the rest, as they say, is for Wikipedians to write, argue about, and temporarily lock edits on. In February , Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms.
The acquisition allowed premium features to become free. The acquisition was done subtly. In December , drastic changes took place. Blogger was taken out of its beta version and totally moved over Google operated servers. This made Blogger claimed that the service was more reliable due to the quality of the servers provided by Google. These features included, a drag and drop template-editing interface, label organization, and new web feed options.
In addition the blogs were updated enthusiastically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files. But in early , Google showed uncertainty about its compatibility with newer version of Blogger; however MS Word adds native support for many blogging systems including Blogger. Today Blogger is amongst the world's top ten websites and there are tonnes of tutorials written on it daily. This was just a brief history of the great Google blogger in a nutshell to give you some history knowledge of this great service that many of us are addicted to.
I just hope you liked it. If you know something new with regard to how Blogger actually came into being then feel free to share it. We love sharings. He has a desire to develop IPhone and Android applications in future. Like most weblogging tools, Blogger is capable of exporting new content in RSS. Cleveland said Google will likely use Blogger to develop sophisticated searches that utilize the rich metadata inherent in the RSS feeds from weblogs: who wrote what and when, what it linked to, what linked to it and its level of popularity with Web surfers.
Cleveland said the search tool his company built for Blogger did exactly this kind of indexing on individual posts, in real time.
Cleveland said in addition to using RSS metadata, the company planned to add ways to factor in Web traffic statistics. Cleveland said the technology could allow Web surfers to find not just breaking news stories, but those highly ranked by the weblogging community.
In addition, those stories could be accompanied by the best comments made by popular webloggers, or those writing in a certain language or from a particular country. Here's what people in France are saying. A Google representative said the company is not discussing its plans for Pyra's technology, but said some "exciting announcements" will happen in the coming weeks. First Baby of to Be a Clone? The websites, which mostly serve niche audiences, typically contain frequently updated opinion and links to material around the internet.
Blogger is behind more than 1m weblogs, , of which are active. The sale is being seen by many in the online community as a sign weblogs have become a mainstream medium. Evan Williams, Pyra's chief executive, said last night he was very happy about the deal which has transferred him and Blogger's six staff to Google.
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