Blogger (service)
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Type of site
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Blog host |
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| Available in | See below |
| Owner | |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |  132 (September 2017)[1] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, Free |
| Launched | August 23, 1999[2] |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | Python[3] |
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com).[4] A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.[5]
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.[6] Unlike WordPress.com,
Blogger allows its users to use their own domain free of charge, while
WordPress.com charges around $13 to use a custom domain.[7] Blogger cannot be installed on a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot dom
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.[9]
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.[10]
On February 24, 2015, Blogger announced that as of late March it will
no longer allow its users to post sexually explicit content, unless the
nudity offers "substantial public benefit," for example in "artistic,
educational, documentary, or scientific contexts."[11]
On February 28, 2015, accounting for severe backlash from long-term
bloggers, Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content, going
back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if
the blog was marked as "adult".[12]
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