History of google
1995
* Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about almost everything during this first meeting.
1996
* Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
* BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.
1997
* Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
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1998
August
* Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn‘t exist yet: a company called Google Inc.
September
* Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki‘s garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
* Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company‘s name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim‘s check.
* Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he‘s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
December
* “PC Magazine” reports that Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results” and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
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1999
February
* We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees.
April
* Yoshka, our first “company” dog, comes to work with our senior vice president of operations, Urs Hoelzle.
May
* Omid Kordestani joins to run sales—the first non-engineering hire.
June
* Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing “Googlers” as ”people who use Google”.
August
* We move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.
November
* Charlie Ayers joins as Google’s first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company‘s 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.
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2000
April
* On April Fools‘ Day, we announce the MentalPlex: Google‘s ability to read your mind as you visualize the search results you want. Thus begins our annual foray in the Silicon Valley tradition of April 1 hoaxes.
May
* The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
* We win our first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples’ Voice (voted by users).
June
* We forge a partnership with Yahoo! to become their default search provider.
* We announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world’s largest search engine.
September
* We start offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.
October
* Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.
December
* Google Toolbar is released. It’s a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.
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2001
January
* We announce the hire of Silicon Valley veteran Wayne Rosing as our first VP of engineering operations.
February
* Our first public acquisition: Deja.com’s Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. We add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.
March
* Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors.
* Google.com is available in 26 languages.
April
* Swedish Chef becomes a language preference.
July
* Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.
August
* We open our first international office, in Tokyo.
* Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.
October
* A new partnership with Universo Online (UOL) makes Google the major search service for millions of Latin Americans.
December
* Keeping track: Our index size grows to 3 billion web documents.
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2002
February
* Klingon becomes one of 72 language interfaces.
* The first Google hardwators of Blogger.
March
* We announce a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google‘s vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquire Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
April
* We launch Google Grants, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for thillion web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.
May
* We announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
* We release Google Labs, a place to try out beta technologies fresh from our R&D team.
September
* Google News launches with 4000 news sources.
October
* We open our first Australian office in Sydney.
December
* You can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called Google Product Search).
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2003
January
* American Dialect Society members vote “google” the “most useful” Word of the Year for 2002.
February
* We acquire Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.
March
* We announce a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google‘s vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquire Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
April
* We launch Google Grants, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their cause.
October
* Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first-ever Code Jam. Coders can work in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
December
* We launch Google Print (which later becomes Google Book Search), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results.
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2004
January
* orkut launches as a way for us to tap into the sphere of social networking.
February
* Larry Page is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
* Our search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
March
* We move to our new “Googleplex” at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.
* We formalize our enterprise unit with the hire of Dave Girouard as general manager; reporters begin reporting in April about our vision for the enterprise search business.
* We introduce Google Local, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps and directions. (Later, Local is combined with Google Maps.)
April
* For April Fools‘ we announce plans to open the Googlunaplex, a new research facility on the Moon.
May
* We announce the first winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.
August
* Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.
September
* There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.
October
* We formally open our office in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney.
* Google SMS (short message service) launches; send your text search queries to GOOGLE or 466453 on your mobile device.
* Larry and Sergey are named Fellows by the Marconi Society, which recognizes “lasting scientific contributions to human progress in the field of communications science and the Internet.”
* We spotlight our new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit from Sergey and Larry.
* Google Desktop Search is introduced: You can now search for files and documents stored on your hard drive using Google technology.
* We launch the beta version of Google Scholar, a free service for searching scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
* We acquire Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.
November
* Our index of web pages reaches 8 billion.
December
* We open our Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.
* The Google Print Program (since renamed Google Book Search) expands through digital scanning partnerships with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan and Oxford as well as the New York Public Library.
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2005
February
* We hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.
* Google Maps goes live.
March
* We launch code.google.com, a new place for developer-oriented resources, including all of our APIs.
* Some 14,000 programmers from six countries compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first coding competition in India, with top scores going to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo of Singapore.
* We acquire Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.
April
* Our first Google Maps release in Europe is for the U.K.
* For April Fools‘, we announce a magical beverage that makes its imbibers more intelligent, and therefore better capable of properly using search results.
* Google Maps now features satellite views and directions.
* Google Local goes mobile, and includes SMS driving directions.
* My Search History launches in Labs, allowing you to view all the web pages you‘ve visited and Google searches you‘ve made over time.
* We release Site Targeting, an AdWords feature giving advertisers the ability to better target their ads to specific content sites.
May
* We release Blogger Mobile, enabling bloggers to use their mobile phones to post and send photos to their blogs.
* Google Scholar adds support for institutional access: Searchers can now locate journal articles within their own libraries.
* Personalized Homepage (now iGoogle) is designed for people to customize their own Google homepage with content modules they choose.
June
* We hold our first Summer of Code, a 3-month $2 million program that aims to help computer science students contribute to open source software development.
* Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.
* We unveil Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.
* We release Personalized Search in Labs: over time, your (opt-in) search history will closely reflect your interests.
* API for Maps released; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.
August
* Google scores well in the U.S. government‘s 2005 machine translation evaluation. (We‘ve done so in subsequent years as well.)
* We launch Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables you to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily, as well as talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.
September
* Overlays in Google Earth illuminate the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina around New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some rescue teams use these tools to locate stranded victims.
* DARPA veteran Vint Cerf joins Google to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.
* Dr. Kai-Fu Lee begins work at our new Research and Development Center in China.
* Google Blog Search goes live; it‘s the way to find current and relevant blog postings on particular topics throughout the enormous blogosphere.
October
* Feed aficionados rejoice as Google Reader, a feed reader, is introduced at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
* Googlers volunteer to produce the first Mountain View book event with Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.” Since then, the Authors@Google program has hosted more than 480 authors in 12 offices across the U.S., Europe and India.
November
* We release Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
* We announce the opening of our first offices in São Paulo and Mexico City.
December
* Google Transit launches in Labs. People in the Portland, Oregon metro area can now plan their trips on public transportation at one site.
* Gmail for mobile launches in the United States.
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2006
January
* Our first Code Jam in China concludes in Beijing. The winner, graduate student Chuan Xu, is one of more than 13,000 registrants.
* We announce the acquisition of dMarc, a digital radio advertising company.
* Google.cn, a local domain version of Google, goes live in China.
* We introduce Picasa in 25 more languages, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.
February
* We release Chat in Gmail, using the instant messaging tools from Google Talk.
* Eric Schmidt is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
* Dr. Larry Brilliant becomes the executive director of Google.org, our philanthropic arm.
* Google News for mobile launches.
March
* We announce the acquisition of Writely, a web-based word processing application that subsequently becomes the basis for Google Docs.
* A team working from Mountain View, Bangalore and New York collaborates to create Google Finance, our approach to an improved search experience for financial information.
April
* For April Fools‘ we unveil a new product, Google Romance: “Dating is a search problem.”
* We launch Google Calendar, complete with sharing and group features.
* We release Maps for France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
May
* We release Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time.
June
* We announce Picasa Web Albums, allowing your to upload and share your photos online.
* The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) adds “Google” as a verb.
* We announce Google Checkout, a fast and easy way to pay for online purchases.
* Gmail, Google News and iGoogle become available on mobile phones in eight more languages besides English: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese and Turkish.
* Gmail launches in Arabic and Hebrew, bringing the number of interfaces up to 40.
July
* At Google Code Jam Europe, nearly 10,000 programmers from 31 countries compete at Google Dublin for the top prizes; Tomasz Czajka from Poland wins the final round.
August
* We launch free citywide WiFi in Mountain View.
* More than 100 libraries on 10 campuses of the University of California join the Google Books Library Project.
* Star Trek‘s 40th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas features a Google booth showcasing tools appropriate for intergalactic use.
* Apps for Your Domain, a suite of applications designed for organizations of all sizes, and including Gmail and Calendar, is released.
* Google Book Search begins offering free PDF downloads of books in the public domain.
September
* We add an archive search to Google News, with more than 200 years of historical articles.
* Featured Content for Google Earth includes overlays from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute and the National Park Service.
* The University Complutense of Madrid becomes the first Spanish-language library to join the Google Books Library Project.
October
* Together with LitCam and UNESCO‘s Institute for Lifelong Learning, we launch the Literacy Project, offering resources for teachers, literacy groups and anyone interested in reading promotion.
* We announce our acquisition of YouTube.
* We release web-based applications Docs & Spreadsheets: Word processor Docs is a reworking of Writely (acquired in March).
* Google Custom Search Engine launches, giving bloggers and website owners the ability to create a search engine tailored to their own interests.
* We acquire JotSpot, a collaborative wiki platform, which later becomes Google Sites.
November
* The first nationwide Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.K. takes place with the theme My Britain. More than 15,000 kids in Britain enter, and 13-year old Katherine Chisnall is chosen to have her doodle displayed on www.google.co.uk. There have been Doodle 4 Google contests in several other years and countries since.
December
* We release Patent Search in the U.S., indexing more than 7 million patents dating back to 1790.
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2007
January
* We announce a partnership with China Mobile, the world‘s largest mobile telecom carrier, to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.
February
* We release Google Maps in Australia, complete with local business results and mobile capability.
* Google Docs & Spreadsheets is available in eleven more languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
* For Valentine‘s Day, we open up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only.)
* Google Apps Premier Edition launches, bringing cloud computing to businesses.
* The Candidates@Google series kicks off with Senator Hillary Clinton, the first of several 2008 Presidential candidates, including Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, to visit the Googleplex.
* We introduce traffic information to Google Maps for more than 30 cities around the U.S.
March
* Our first Latin American software coding contest ends with Fábio Dias Moreira of Brazil taking the grand prize. He scored more points than 5,000 other programmers from all over the continent.
* We sign partnerships to give free access to Google Apps for Education to 70,000 university students in Kenya and Rwanda.
April
* This April Fools‘ Day is extra busy: not only do we introduce the Gmail Paper Archive and TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider)—we lose (and find) a real snake in our New York office!
* We add eight more languages to Blogger, bringing the total to 19.
May
* In partnership with the Growing Connection, we plant a vegetable garden in the middle of the Googleplex, the output of which is incorporated into our café offerings.
* We move into permanent space in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Governor Jennifer Granholm helps us celebrate. The office is an AdWords support site.
* At our Searchology event, we announce new strides taken towards universal search. Now video, news, books, image and local results are all integrated together in one search result.
* Google Hot Trends launches, listing the current 100 most active queries, showing what people are searching for at the moment.
* Street View debuts in Google Maps in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver.
* On Developer Day, we announce Google Gears (now known just as Gears), an open source technology for creating offline web applications.
June
* Google Maps gets prime placement on the original Apple iPhone.
* YouTube becomes available in nine more domains: Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.
* We announce a partnership with Salesforce.com, combining that company‘s on-demand CRM applications with AdWords.
* We unveil several “green” initiatives: RechargeIT, aimed at accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the completion of our installation of solar panels at the Googleplex, in Mountain View, and our intention to be completely carbon-neutral by the end of 2007. We also announce the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in collaboration with Intel, Dell and more than 30 other companies.
* Google Earth Outreach is introduced, designed to help nonprofit organizations use Google Earth to advocate their causes.
July
* We announce the acquisition of Postini.
* The first CNN/YouTube debate takes place between the eight U.S. Democratic Presidential candidates. (The Republicans get their turn in November 2007.)
* Google Finance becomes available for non-U.S. markets for the first time, in Canada.
* Google Apps is now available in 28 languages.
August
* We ask users for their interpretation of how Gmail travels around the world, and receive more than 1,100 video responses from more than 65 different countries.
* To infinity and beyond! Sky launches inside Google Earth, including layers for constellation information and virtual tours of galaxies.
September
* AdSense for Mobile is introduced, giving sites optimized for mobile browsers the ability to host the same ads as standard websites.
* Together with the X PRIZE Foundation we announce the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon for a $30 million prize purse.
* We add Presently, a new application for making slide presentations, to Google Docs.
* Google Reader becomes available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, English (U.K.), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese and Korean.
October
* We partner with IBM on a supercomputing initiative so that students can learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.
November
* We announce OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for developers to build applications for social networks.
* Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, and a collaboration with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced. Soon after, we introduce the $10 million Android Developer Challenge.
* Google.org announces REHistory Twitter
Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo. It was going to be a podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz Stone, to join him. When Apple launched iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo's podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter instead. Odeo's investors didn't like Twitter, and Evan did them a huge favor by buying back all their stock and making them whole.
According to interviews with about a dozen early investors and employees, the story of how Twitter was actually founded begins with an entrepreneur named Noah Glass, who started Odeo in his apartment.
The story begins about six years ago...
THE REAL HISTORY OF TWITTER
"Noah had a product where you call a phone number and it would turn your message into an MP3 hosted on the Internet. That was the technology that Noah brought that turned into Odeo," says early employee Ray McClure.
Along with Charles River Ventures and about a dozen other individuals, one of Glass's earliest investors in Odeo was a former Google employee named Evan Williams. Williams was more involved with Odeo than most investors are with startups in their portfolios, and eventually, Odeo moved from Noah's apartment to Williams's. Williams, who had recently sold a company called Blogger to Google, had just bought a nice house and wanted to put his old apartment to good use.
"I think it was something Ev was interested in, but it was mostly Noah's thing," says McClure.
"At that time, it would have been me, Evan [Henshwaw-Plath, better know by friends as "Rabble,"] and Rabble's wife Gabba. Mostly it was the four of us working out of the apartment."
Blaine Cook
Early Odeo employee Blaine Cook would become Twitter's first CTO
Image: Matt BiddulphNext, Odeo moved into an office and started hiring more employees – including a quiet, on-again, off-again Web designer named Jack Dorsey and an engineer named Blaine Cook. Evan Williams became Odeo's CEO.
By July 2005, Odeo had a product: a platform for podcasting.
Similer
The History Of Blogger
Blogger was first launched on August 23, 1999. It was created by Pyra Labs. Blogger is one of the earliest blog publishing tools. It has been credited for helping to popularize the format. At first Blogger was entirely free and there was no income model. When Pyra Lab’s money was diminished, the employees worked without pay for weeks, even months. This caused a lot of employees to leave the company. Evan Williams, who is the co founder of Blogger, ran the company solely by himself after the loss of income. He then was lucky to seal an investment by Trellix. Soon after, advertising started supporting Blogger, and Blogger Pro emerged.
Pyra Labs was bought out by Google in February of 2003. The acquisition to Google was done subtly. The acquisition allowed premium features, which were once charged for, to become free. Then, around a year later, Evan Williams left Google. In 2004 Google purchased Picasa. When they did this they incorporated Picasa and its photo sharing utility into Blogger. This movement brought in more users because it allowed them to post photos to their blogs.
In 2004 Blogger completed a significant redesign. They added multiple features. These features included individual archive pages for posts, comments, posting by email, and web templates. On August 14, 2006, Blogger brought forth its latest and more advanced version in beta. This version’s code name was Invader. Invader attracted even more users to Google servers and included some new features. However, at the end of 2006 Blogger was removed from beta. By May 2007, Blogger had entirely moved over to Google operated dedicated servers.
Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of the top 50 domains in conditions of numbers of visitors in the year 2007. Blogger has been redesigned multiple times through out its existence. Its most drastic redesign took place in 2006. All blogs, which were associated with a user’s Google account, were automatically moved to Google servers. This made Blogger claim that the service was more reliable due to the quality of the servers provided by Google. Along with the movement to Google servers, there were new features introduced. 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.
Additional Facts:
The Google toolbar has a feature that is called BlogThis. This tool bar allows users that have blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs no matter the size.
“Blogger for Word” is a completely free add in for Microsoft Word. This add in enables users to save a MS word document right onto a Blogger blog. They can also edit their post any time on and offline. However, in January 2007, Google stated that Blogger Word is not compatible with the new version of blogger coming out, and they do not know if they will support it in the future.
Blogger is extremely supportive of Google's AdSense service as a means of income from running a blog.
Blogger offers multiple author support. This support makes it possible to set up group blogs.
Blogger also offers a template-editing feature that allows users to modify the Blogger template.
Windows live Writer, which is a standalone application of the Windows Live suite, publishes straight to Blogger.
The only two countries which have sworn off blogger and have blocked it is, Turkey and Pakistan. The reasons for this have never been explained.
Bloggers main website is www.blogger.com. The blogs which it host are all from blogspot.com.
Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo. It was going to be a podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz Stone, to join him. When Apple launched iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo's podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter instead. Odeo's investors didn't like Twitter, and Evan did them a huge favor by buying back all their stock and making them whole.
According to interviews with about a dozen early investors and employees, the story of how Twitter was actually founded begins with an entrepreneur named Noah Glass, who started Odeo in his apartment.
The story begins about six years ago...
THE REAL HISTORY OF TWITTER
"Noah had a product where you call a phone number and it would turn your message into an MP3 hosted on the Internet. That was the technology that Noah brought that turned into Odeo," says early employee Ray McClure.
Along with Charles River Ventures and about a dozen other individuals, one of Glass's earliest investors in Odeo was a former Google employee named Evan Williams. Williams was more involved with Odeo than most investors are with startups in their portfolios, and eventually, Odeo moved from Noah's apartment to Williams's. Williams, who had recently sold a company called Blogger to Google, had just bought a nice house and wanted to put his old apartment to good use.
"I think it was something Ev was interested in, but it was mostly Noah's thing," says McClure.
"At that time, it would have been me, Evan [Henshwaw-Plath, better know by friends as "Rabble,"] and Rabble's wife Gabba. Mostly it was the four of us working out of the apartment."
Blaine Cook
Early Odeo employee Blaine Cook would become Twitter's first CTO
Image: Matt BiddulphNext, Odeo moved into an office and started hiring more employees – including a quiet, on-again, off-again Web designer named Jack Dorsey and an engineer named Blaine Cook. Evan Williams became Odeo's CEO.
By July 2005, Odeo had a product: a platform for podcasting.
Similer
The History Of Blogger
Blogger was first launched on August 23, 1999. It was created by Pyra Labs. Blogger is one of the earliest blog publishing tools. It has been credited for helping to popularize the format. At first Blogger was entirely free and there was no income model. When Pyra Lab’s money was diminished, the employees worked without pay for weeks, even months. This caused a lot of employees to leave the company. Evan Williams, who is the co founder of Blogger, ran the company solely by himself after the loss of income. He then was lucky to seal an investment by Trellix. Soon after, advertising started supporting Blogger, and Blogger Pro emerged.
Pyra Labs was bought out by Google in February of 2003. The acquisition to Google was done subtly. The acquisition allowed premium features, which were once charged for, to become free. Then, around a year later, Evan Williams left Google. In 2004 Google purchased Picasa. When they did this they incorporated Picasa and its photo sharing utility into Blogger. This movement brought in more users because it allowed them to post photos to their blogs.
In 2004 Blogger completed a significant redesign. They added multiple features. These features included individual archive pages for posts, comments, posting by email, and web templates. On August 14, 2006, Blogger brought forth its latest and more advanced version in beta. This version’s code name was Invader. Invader attracted even more users to Google servers and included some new features. However, at the end of 2006 Blogger was removed from beta. By May 2007, Blogger had entirely moved over to Google operated dedicated servers.
Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of the top 50 domains in conditions of numbers of visitors in the year 2007. Blogger has been redesigned multiple times through out its existence. Its most drastic redesign took place in 2006. All blogs, which were associated with a user’s Google account, were automatically moved to Google servers. This made Blogger claim that the service was more reliable due to the quality of the servers provided by Google. Along with the movement to Google servers, there were new features introduced. 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.
Additional Facts:
The Google toolbar has a feature that is called BlogThis. This tool bar allows users that have blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs no matter the size.
“Blogger for Word” is a completely free add in for Microsoft Word. This add in enables users to save a MS word document right onto a Blogger blog. They can also edit their post any time on and offline. However, in January 2007, Google stated that Blogger Word is not compatible with the new version of blogger coming out, and they do not know if they will support it in the future.
Blogger is extremely supportive of Google's AdSense service as a means of income from running a blog.
Blogger offers multiple author support. This support makes it possible to set up group blogs.
Blogger also offers a template-editing feature that allows users to modify the Blogger template.
Windows live Writer, which is a standalone application of the Windows Live suite, publishes straight to Blogger.
The only two countries which have sworn off blogger and have blocked it is, Turkey and Pakistan. The reasons for this have never been explained.
Bloggers main website is www.blogger.com. The blogs which it host are all from blogspot.com.
