\t\t\t\tThis just in:<\/p>\n
\nGoogle, which runs the Web’s premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal<\/a><\/p>\n
Wow.<\/p>\n
My immediate reaction is to say a quick RIP for Nick Denton’s nascent blog indexing<\/a> company, as his services will no longer be required.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Denton’s partner, the ubiquitous “megnut”, says on Metafilter<\/a> that they’ll not be affected by Booger:<\/p>\n
As the co-founder of “Nick Denton’s blog indexing company” (and the co-founder of Pyra Labs) I can tell you this isn’t RIP for what we’re doing and building. You can read more about the Lafayette Project<\/a> here but we’re not building weblog search, and never had any intention of going up against Google, even before this deal was announced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Clicking through to her blog, she describes a “best-of-the-blogs show”. Daily Bloggie Awards? Well, different strokes and all that.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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