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Type of site | Blog host |
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Available in | See below |
Country of origin | United States of America |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | |
Founder(s) | |
URL | www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional, Free |
Launched | August 23, 1999[1] |
Current status | Active |
Written in | Java |
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 that enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned custom domain (such as www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.[1][2][3] A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account.[4]
Blogger enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via FTP until May 1, 2010. All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a blogspot.com subdomain or point their own domain to Google's servers via DNS.[5]