In a move that surprised many people, Google buys Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger and Blog*Spot.
As Google didn’t announce anything yet, there is a lot of speculation about what the news mean. I still don’t know what to make of it, but it’s obvious many things will change in the blogosphere in the coming days — hopefully, in a good direction.
Update: Cory Doctorow has posted some very interesting thoughts about the news.
Update: Nick Denton makes a proposal for Boogle.
Coverage around the blogosphere:
- Nick Denton: A more interesting question: will Google use weblog links to improve Google News?
- Matt Webb: Google are building the Memex
- Ben Hammersley: It’s a distributed early warning system for Google’s spiders. One million zeitgeist monitors just signed on to Google’s staff. A bargain for them, whatever the cost.
- Shelley Powers: Google + Blogger = What?
- Karl Martino: Google is attempting to swallow the web. It will get a belly ache.
- Anil Dash: Once Google’s plan becomes clearer, it’ll be possible to see whether Google’s adoption of part of the blogosphere is prescient or unfortunately incomplete.
- Jason Shellen: Well, looks like someone scooped us on our own story.
- Cory Doctorow: Holy crap!
- Evan Williams: Holy crap!
- Joi Ito: This is going to be tricky.
- Jeremy Zawodny: Cool. Go Google!
