About Blogger: Behind the Scenes

URL of product : www.blogger.com

History of the product :
Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. It started with three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make their own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What they were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now. “But while doing it, they created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm... that's kinda interesting” (Story of Blogger, n.d.).

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Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. They raised a little money, but stayed small. Then they ran out of money. Narrowly survived, but kept the service going the whole time and started building it back up.
Things were going well again in 2002. They had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people. And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy them. They liked Google a lot and Google liked blogs. Therefore, they were open to the idea, and it worked out nicely.


Creators and Maintainers
Evan Williams is the founder of Pyra. Evans and his company still maintain www.blogger.com. Now they are a small, “but slightly bigger than before” team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective, which has pretty much always been the main idea (Story of Blogger, n.d.).