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Blogger is a blog publishing service owned by Google that allows users to create private or multi-user blogs. It was created in 1999 by Pyra Labs and was later acquired by Google in 2003. Blogger hosts blogs on blogspot.com domains and allows custom domains. It offers blogs in many languages and integrates with other Google services like Picasa for photo sharing. Major redesigns in 2004, 2006, and 2009 added new features and migrated hosting to Google servers.

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Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing service owned by Google that allows users to create private or multi-user blogs. It was created in 1999 by Pyra Labs and was later acquired by Google in 2003. Blogger hosts blogs on blogspot.com domains and allows custom domains. It offers blogs in many languages and integrates with other Google services like Picasa for photo sharing. Major redesigns in 2004, 2006, and 2009 added new features and migrated hosting to Google servers.

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Blogger (service)

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Blogger

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URL

blogger.com

Commercial?

Yes

Type of site

Blog Host

Registration

Optional, Free

Availablelanguage(s) Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Owner

Google Inc.

Created by

Pyra Labs

Launched

August 23, 1999[1]

Alexa rank

7 (November 2011)[2]

Current status

Active

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought byGoogle in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via Custom URLs.[3] In July of 2011 a news outlet announced that Google intends to change the name of the service from "Blogger" to "Google Blogs," as part of a larger plan to re-brand or retire all non-Google brands in its portfolio of products and services.[4]
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1 History

1.1 Redesign

2 Integration 3 Blocking 4 Limitations 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit]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. In October 2004, 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 had some new features, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish.[5] 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. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.[6]

[edit]Redesign
As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers. [7] 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 blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files. In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,[8] new features are tested before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service'sofficial blog. In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:

Adding location to posts via geotagging. Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation. Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference. Link editing in Compose mode. Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS. New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.

Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in Compose mode. New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.

In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.[9]

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