Pyra Labs was acquired by Google in 2003.
This marked a significant shift in the company's trajectory.
The founders of Pyra Labs, Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, were instrumental in shaping the company's direction.
Their vision for a user-friendly blogging platform was starting to take shape.
The acquisition by Google provided Pyra Labs with the resources and expertise needed to further develop its product.
Blogger, the company's flagship product, was poised to become a leading blogging platform.
Google Acquires Pyra Labs
Google has acquired Pyra Labs, the company behind the popular blogging platform Blogger.
In January, Blogger boasted that it had 1 million users registered to use its software.
Pyra Labs was formed in early 1999 by Evan Williams, with funding from computer publisher O'Reilly & Associates and Advance Publications.
Blogger offers a free, ad-supported version of its software and a $35 version for commercial publishers.
The acquisition was announced after Pyra Labs Chief Executive Evan Williams confirmed on his personal Weblog that his team of six developers would be joining Google.
Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, are a form of grass-roots online diary publishing that give computer users with limited technical knowledge the ability to update their personal sites on the Web.
Google acquired Pyra Labs for an undisclosed sum after four months of negotiations.
The sale is being seen by many in the online community as a sign weblogs have become a mainstream medium.
Blogger is behind more than 1 million weblogs, 200,000 of which are active.
Evan Williams, Pyra's chief executive, said he was very happy about the deal which has transferred him and Blogger's six staff to Google.
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