History

On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated 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 free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan
Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo
sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.[citation needed]
On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-
compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On
August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the
gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and had some new features, including
interface language in French, Italian, 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-
operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number 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 "substantial 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 the blog was
marked as "adult".[12]

Redesign
As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were
migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now 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, reading 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 Blogger as part of its tenth-anniversary celebration.
The features included a new interface 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, per-blog 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 what 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 "redo" buttons,
also added the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color
palette.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]

Available languages
As of late 2016, Blogger is available in these 60 languages [citation needed]: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic,
Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
(Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States),
Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,
Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay,
Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal),
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain),
Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Zulu.

Country-specific Blogger addresses

Starting in February 2013, Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple country-specific
URLs. For example, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.com would be automatically redirected
to exampleuserblogname.blogspot.ca in
Canada, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.co.uk in the United Kingdom. Blogger explained
that by doing this they could manage the blog content more locally so if there was any
objectionable material that violated a particular country's laws they could remove and block
access to that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD while retaining access through
other ccTLD addresses and the default Blogspot.com URL. If a blog using a country-specific URL
was removed it is still technically possible to access the blog through Google's No Country
Redirect override by entering the URL using the regular Blogspot.com address and
adding /ncr after .com.[17] In May 2018, Blogger stopped redirecting to ccTLDs and country-
specific URLs would now redirect to the default Blogspot.com addresses. [18]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was
criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor. [16]