A few words about Blogger

This is an attempt to know about one of the most visited site ,which has made possible for people to express their feelings,leave behind cyber imprints to remember the memorable events in their life as vivid and alive for ever and create a world of their own .

So to begin with Blogger is a blog publishing system created by Pyra Labs, and finally bought by Google in 2003. Although its website is www.blogger.com, the blogs it hosts are all subdomains of blogspot.com.

This is how blogger grew with all the features it currently possesses.

• 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.

Blogger was ranked 16 and 9 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007 and 2008 respectively.

Thanks to wiki for the above information.