Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stam

ped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs
can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.exam
ple.com).[4] A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.[5]
Up until May 1, 2010, Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via
FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, wi
th domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs.[6] Unlike WordPress.
com, Blogger allows its users to use their own domain free of charge, while Word
Press.com charges around $13 to use a custom domain.[7] Blogger cannot be instal
led on a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a
blogspot domain.[8]
Contents
1 History
1.1 Redesign
1.2 Available languages
1.3 Country-specific blogger addresses
2 Available designs
3 Integration
4 Blogger on mobile devices
5 Blocking
6 Limitations
7 Support
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
History
On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest de
dicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format.
In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The
acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become fre
e. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004,
Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hell
o into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.
On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web
standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, an
d posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in b
eta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Goo
gle servers and had some new features, including interface language in French, I
talian, German and Spanish.[9] In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was
taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google-ope
rated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of n
umber of unique visitors in 2007.[10]
On February 24, 2015, Blogger announced that as of late March it will no longer
allow its users to post sexually explicit content, unless the nudity offers "sub
stantial public benefit," for example in "artistic, educational, documentary, or
scientific contexts."[11] On February 28, 2015, accounting for severe backlash
from long-term bloggers, Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content
, going back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if t
he blog was marked as "adult".[12]
Redesign
As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Goog

le Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is n
ow more reliable because of the quality of the servers.[13]
Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced
, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, read
ing permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore,
blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.
In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,[14] new features are tested
before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service's
official blog.[15] In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogg
er as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The features included a new int
erface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other
Google Docs-based implementations, including:
Adding location to posts via geotagging.
Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, perblog preference.
Link editing in compose mode.
Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and macOS.
New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating w
hat is seen in the published view.
Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in compose mode.
New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "red
o" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through butto
n, and an expanded color palette.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new po
st editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.[16]
Available languages
As of late 2016, Blogger is available in these languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Ar
abic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplif
ied), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kin
gdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, G
erman, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian
, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nor
wegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, R
ussian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Sw
ahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Z
ulu.
Country-specific blogger addresses
Starting in February 2013, Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple co
untry-specific URLs. For example, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.com would be auto
matically redirected to exampleuserblogname.blogspot.ca in Canada, exampleuserbl
ogname.blogspot.co.uk in the United Kingdom. Blogger explained that by doing thi
s they could manage the blog content more locally so if there was any objectiona
ble material that violated a particular country's laws they could remove and blo
ck access to that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD while retaini
ng access through other ccTLD addresses and the default Blogspot.com URL. Howeve
r it should be noted that if a blog using a country-specific URL was removed it
is still technically possible to access the blog through Google's No Country Red
irect override by entering the URL using the regular Blogspot.com address and ad
ding /ncr after the .com.[17]
Available designs
Blogger allows its users to choose from various templates and then customize the
m. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS. The new design

template, known as "Dynamic View", was introduced on 31 August 2011[18] with Dy

namic Views being introduced on 27 September 2011.[19] It is built with AJAX, HT
ML5, and CSS3. The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templ
ates, and allows user to present blog in seven different ways: classic, flipcard
, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, and timeslide. Readers still have the opt
ion to choose preferable views when the blog owner has set a default view.[20] S
ome of the widgets (e.g., Labels, Profile, Link List, Subscription Links, Follow
ers and Blog Archive etc.) are available for Dynamic Views; other templates are
chosen by the blogger.
In April 2013, Blogger updated its HTML template editor that has some improvemen
ts to make it easy for the users to edit the blog's source code. The editor was
updated with syntax highlight, number line and jump-to-widget button for ease of
editing the code.
For over half a year dynamic views users were suffering from a bug causing custo
m CSS and page navigation often not to load properly. This happened because a Ja
vaScript routine rendered the page before it was loaded. A blogger user fixed th
e template and published the fix.[21]
Integration
The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar use
rs with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
"Blogger for Word" is an add-in for Microsoft Word which allows users to sav
e a Microsoft Word document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their po
sts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is n
ot currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no deci
sion has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger.[22] However, Micros
oft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including
Blogger.
Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue fro
m running a blog.
Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as
a service to generate revenue.[23] It was not publicly announced, but by Septem
ber 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the
partnership had ended.[24]
Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes d
irectly to Blogger.
Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google+.
Google+ comments can be integrated with blogger comments.
The Campaigns tab in Blogger dashboard links to Adwords making it easier to
create ads .
You may create and add HTML site map static page to your blogger BlogSpot bl
ogs using Blogger JSON Feed API[25] which helps both website live visitors as we
ll as Search Engine bots.
Blogger on mobile devices
Blogger has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices. Users ca
n post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger through their
mobile devices. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones, are being
considered, since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS
and MMS.[26]
Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS
The major two mobile operating systems that Blogger focuses on are Android and i
OS.[27][28] Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and eithe
r publish the blogs or save them as drafts. Quick navigation from posts and draf
ts is accessible from a list. Users can attach photos by taking a picture with a
Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo galleries. Sharing current l

ocations on posts is also possible by tabbing My Location bar and adding locatio
ns. Users can also share photos and links directly to Blogger.
Blogger also provides dynamic mobile views for the blogging compatibility with m
obile devices and smart phones. They enhance the readability accuracy on these s
mart devices, but editing a blog on the blogger app remains an open issue for th
e users.
Blocking
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Blogger has been blocked for various periods of time in the following countries:
Cuba
Fiji
India (some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federal List of Ext
remist Materials in 2011)[29]
Iran
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Pakistan[30]
People's Republic of China
Russian Federation (some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federa
l List of Extremist Materials in 2011)[31]
Syrian Arab Republic
Turkey
Vietnam
Yemen
Blocking of *.blogspot.com domains by keyword-based Internet filtering systems i
s also encountered due to the domain containing the substring "gspot".
Limitations
Blogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user
account:[32]
Blog description
500 characters max; Hyper Text Markup Language markup not s
upported
Number of blogs
100 blogs per account
Number of labels 5,000 unique labels per blog (an increase from the original
2,000), 20 unique labels per post (with at most 200 characters)
Number of pictures - Ordinarily, Up to 1 GB of total storage, shared with Pi
casa Web. If you've upgraded to Google+, your photos will be stored in Google Ph
otos, where you have 15GB of storage space shared with Gmail and Drive. However[
citation needed], if one has signed up for Google+ account, images less than 16
megapixels (4920 x 3264)[33] would not be counted to this storage limit. For use
rs not signed up for Google+, 800 x 800 pixels and below images would not be inc
luded in this storage space.
Number of posts
There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one
blog. However, only 50 posts can be published per day before a user is required
to go through a check process.[citation needed]
Size of pages Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) ar
e limited to 1 MB
Size of pictures If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB per picture;[3
4] posted pictures are scaled to 1600px[citation needed]
Number of Pages - There is no limit on the number of pages you can have on o
ne blog

Team members (those who can write to a blog)

100 invitations per blog
Favicon
Any square image less than 100KB
Account Suspension: If your site violating any terms of service, your site w
ill be suspended by Blogger without any notice. Sometimes repeated violation may
cause your whole Google account to be suspended.[35]
On February 18, 2010,[36] Blogger introduced "auto-pagination", which limited th
e number of posts that could be displayed on each page, often causing the number
of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leadin
g to a hostile response from some users.[37][38]
Private blogs are limited to only 100 members.
Support
The official support channel is the Blogger Product Forum.[39] This online discu
ssion forum, delivered using Google Groups, serves Blogger users of varying expe
rience, and receives some monitoring from Google staff. "Top contributors" are c
ommunity-members nominated by the Google staff who enjoy additional privileges i
ncluding managing discussions and direct access to Google staff. There is likely
to be a top contributor or other knowledgeable person reading the forum almost
all the time.
A number of people, including some top contributors, run personal blogs where th
ey offer advice and post information about common problems.
StackExchange's Web Applications forum has a tag for "blogger", which is used fo
r questions about various blogging platforms, including Blogger.[40]
See also