Blogger.com is a blog hosting service that allows users to publish web logs or blogs on the internet and share them publicly. It was launched in 1999 and acquired by Google in 2003. Over the years, Google made many changes to Blogger, including moving servers to Google, adding templates, comments, photo posting, and language translations. By 2007, Google had full control over Blogger after moving all servers internally, though some changes like briefly banning sexually explicit content in 2015 caused user backlash.

1. Jarrod Merrifield
2/13/2018
CIS 145 – HTML
Blogger.com
Blogger.com is a Blog site, it allows users to post web logs on the internet to share with
the public. Multiple users on the site can simultaneously work on blogs if they are authors of the
blog. Each user has a time stamped entry on the blog so other users can see when changes may
have been made. Blogger currently ranks 255 in the United States, however in countries like
India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Spain, it ranks much closer to 1.
In August 1999 Pyra Labs launched Blogger. Four years later in February it was
purchased from Pyra Labs by Google for an undisclosed amount. Google made a lot of changes
to it over the years, for instance, on May 9th, 2004 Google released a major redesign for Blogger.
This redesign moved some servers over to Google servers. This allowed users to have templates
for their blogs, individual archives on each post, it also allowed users to comment on blog posts,
you could post your blog via email, and Google integrated Picasa photo editing software into
Blogger so users could now post photos on their blogs.
Two years after the major redesign Google released Blogger into beta. This allowed
Google to move more users onto their servers, in return they were able to integrate more
interface languages into Blogger. These languages included French, Italian, German, and
Spanish. This beta released allowed Blogger to become more widespread around the world,
which in return caused its popularity to increase even higher.
In May of 2007, Google managed to move all the Blogger servers onto Google servers.
Since the news of this broke Blogger was ranked 16 out of 50 on the Top Domains list with
Unique Visitors of 2007. This gave Google complete control over Blogger, but due to Google
always changing Blogger has taken a few hits when Google would tinker with things. For
instance, on February 24th, 2015 Google banned Sexually Explicit content from Blogger.com.
Because a certain majority of Bloggers relied on their income from Blogger, and their pages
consisted of mostly sexually explicit content, Google received backlash, they lost many users to
other Blog sites that did not have limits on sexually explicit content. Only four days later
reversed their decision on the content and unbanned sexually explicit content. However, you
must now list the content under the “Adult” section to not receive any consequences.