Times joins Google/Blogger speculation
I enjoyed reading the New York Times story on Google's acquisition of Pyra Labs, developer of Blogger, because everything in the story is a week old in blogspace and demonstrates why Google might want to tap Blogger in real-time. This is the reason Meg Hourihan, who co-founded Pyra, provides for the acquisition. I remain skeptical about this motive, since the success of the strategy would depend on having everyone using the Blogger database in order to maximize the search utility Meg describes. Instead, being able to tap the blog world as both an input to Google and a way of expressing search results through people-empowering tools seems the most cogent and complete explanation to me.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at February 23, 2003 08:10 PM | TrackBack