Google Buys Blogger

In a story whose implications have yet to completely play out, Dan Gillmor reports that Google has bought Pyra Labs, the company responsible for Blogger, one of the first web log publishing tools (and the one I happen to use). As the story points out, Google already catalogs web log links, so how much more synergy this creates is unclear. However, it definitely lends credibility to blogging, which was moving into the mainstream even before this development.

Update: Evan Williams, the co-founder of Pyra Labs, has a comment on this development in his blog. It doesn’t reveal much more information on possible implications yet, but he adds to the belief that this will end up being a “good thing.”

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