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In our case, that product is Blogger. Blogger, the famous blog-publishing service was one of the key internet existences that made blogging as big as we know it today. Along with ‘Open Diary’ and ‘LiveJournal’, Blogger was part of the Holy Trinity of Blogging. A great concept, lead by a great mind, at the climax of the dot-com boom, could only mean great success, right? Right – except what followed the dot-com boom was the dot-com bubble burst.
The burst hit Blogger hard, being a young company with limited profits and no Email List real business model. a few stayed and worked just for the cause, without receiving any salary for months. At one point, Evan Williams found himself the only employee of Blogger. But he never gave up. Sometime later, when the online economy began to pick up, the company managed to get funded as some ads also started appearing on the blogs.
Matt Hammer, a programmer in the Pyra Labs office in 2000 / Source And then Google came along. The details of the deal remain undisclosed to this day, but what we know is that Google purchased Pyra Labs, Blogger, and its six employees, along with Evan, in October 2003. Later on, Blogger was moved to Google’s servers, the platform was redesigned, and all of its services became free. It incorporated new features, too.
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