[icernet] Why Did Google Want Blogger?

[Arul Selvan]

  Forget war and strife, the only news that mattered on the Web this 
week was Google's acquisition of Pyra Labs, the scrappy San Francisco 
startup behind the Blogger weblogging tool. News of Pyra's sale for an 
undisclosed sum broke on Feb. 14, but details about the deal have so far 
been scant. Neither Google nor Prya is saying much about it. Evan 
Williams, Pyra's co-founder, blogged his day-to-day life for the last 
three years right up until it got interesting. Williams pulled his blog 
offline earlier this week. Meanwhile, thousands of weblogs and weblog 
indexes like Daypop and Blogdex have been loaded with debate about what 
the deal meant for the Web, for searching and for blogging. The 
acquisition has puzzled some onlookers: what would a search company want 
with a tool for making weblogs?

Source:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57754,00.html