Google buys Pyra Labs

Argyle writes "SiliconValley.com reports that Google has bought Pyra Labs. Pyra Labs is the creator of the Blogger software and runs the blogger.com and blogspot.com services. In weblog fashion, founder Evan Williams reported the news on his weblog in the middle of the Live from the Blogosphere event."

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Re:just me or ..

[sawilson]

True, but that's just smart if you ask me. Website
hosting is a great value add, but there are plenty
of people out there doing it. Weather reports would
be cool, but then they'd be just like everybody else
using the same TAF's and weather observations to
deliver the same information. Stock quotes would
also be nice, but most people usually have a place
they get those if they are into that type of thing.
Google has built their incredible services on the
concept of searching, and less intrusive marketing.
That's probably why everybody I know uses google
for searching, and is abandoning the traditional
oldschool search engines in droves. Bloggers are
a perfect fit with everything else googles has
going for it. They don't offer everything yahoo
has, but everything they do offer is better than
what yahoo has. I doubt yahoo or anybody else will
every catch up. Both Google and Yahoo are huge
success stories for open source in the enterprise
as Google uses Linux for servers, and Yahoo uses
FreeBSD. :)