What is Blogger? - Google Own Content Management and Publishing Platform

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1. What is Blogger?

Blogger is a content management and publishing platform used for blogging purposes. Blogger allows users to public articles or posts with text content, videos, and photos in the articles. Also, the Blogger is free to use for anybody who does have a Google Account and one blog is recognized under a single domain or sub-domain name under the blogspot.com.

Blogger is used by lot of individuals who want to get a personal space on the internet with free hosting and a custom domain to choose as they wish and as they require according to their requirement.

2. History

Blogger is a project developed and owned by Pyra Labs and the blogger was available to the public on 23rd August 1999. Pyra Labs was acquired by Google in February 2003 for an undisclosed amount and the premium features of the Blogger got free with Google's acquisition.

Google completely revamped Blogger's features and interfaces and made a release in 2006 which brought a lot of features to the platform itself.