From a story done for the San Jose Mercury News and reported on Dan Gillmor’s weblog:
But now Google will surge to the forefront of what David Krane, the company’s director of corporate communications, called “a global self- publishing phenomenon that connects Internet users with dynamic, diverse points of view while also enabling comment and participation.”
“We’re thrilled about the many synergies and future opportunities between our two companies,” he said in a statement on Saturday. He didn’t elaborate further on what those synergies and opportunities might be, but said more details would emerge soon. Users of the Blogger software and hosting service won’t see any immediate changes, he added.
For Williams and his five co-workers, now Google employees, the immediate impact will be to put their blog-hosting service, called Blog*Spot, on the vast network of server computers Google operates. This will make the service more reliable and robust.
That last is good news at least. For the rest we’ll have to wait and see, but if there’s one company I trust not to fuck things up, it’s Google.