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Google aquire Blogger

16th February 2003

Lots of analysis around the blogosphere today of Google’s surprise aquisition of Blogger. Cory Doctorow’s analysis is (in my opinion) especially worth reading. Personally, I just hope Google do something about Blogger’s revolting archive URLs :)

Posted 16th February 2003 at 10:02 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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