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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: February 16, 2003 Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time (Dan Gillmor) -- "Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals." (Comments: Of course everyone is going to talk about this. It is big news, right? I'm still waiting for a Google browser.)
Reader Comments...
Not doubt Google blogs will be kick ass, but how does blogging help maintain Google as the world's best search engine?. This news concerns me because if Google will branch out into blogs, where else will it go? How long before it wants to give me my weather forecast and stock prices? In the end, I'm more sad than happy about this news.
"No doubt." @#$%^&*! Posted by: Cheech on February 16, 2003 11:28 PM
How does this play into the idea of Big Brother Google? Posted by: John S. Rhodes on February 16, 2003 11:31 PM
I accidentally posted this in another thread, but here's where I meant to put it: For all intents and purposes, Google owns the Web, by virtue of its superior and highly popular search engine. It also owns the history of the Internet, thanks to GoogleGroups, which searches over 20 years of Usenet archives. It owns the present, thanks to GoogleNews, which continually scans the front pages of thousands of online newspapers, deduces which stories editors around the world consider to be the most important, and snags the headlines and lead paragraphs from those sentences to assemble a patchwork quilt that exposes news readers to a wide variety of editorial and political opinions. Will GoogleBlogs somehow cross the line? Can Google be fair to blogs hosted by its competitors? Has the Google Galaxy brought an end to the Golden Age of blogging? Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz on February 16, 2003 11:45 PM
Dennis, correctomundo. Google providing blogs is a clear conflict of interest. As long as they were only about "search" they could be trusted as being impartial. Then they expanded into newsgroups, and now blogs. What next? Evil isn't something you choose. It sneaks up on you. Feel Google's colorful forehead. Those bumps are horns about to break skin. Posted by: Chong? on February 17, 2003 12:03 AM
Someone just showed me the GoogleBrowser the other day. John, you really have to keep up, you know? :) Posted by: Lyle - Usability Guru on February 17, 2003 05:32 PM
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