Monday, July 14, 2008

This Blog Celebrates Year 6 With A NEW Feature

This blog, unlike Goat's "No Hitter," came forth via a blog publishing system that was created by Pyra Labs of San Francisco which Google acquired in 2003. True to its calling, Google has enabled searches within this blog. Enter a name or a term in the search window in the left column header above "Recent Posts." The internal search engine will pull up the blog entry containing the name or term if such exists among all of the rants & raves. If this is (fair & balanced) wonderment, so be it.

[x Wikipedia]
Blogger

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 CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email.

On 14 August 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.

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

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.


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