Her lawyer asked the judge to force Google to reveal the identity of the blogger, whose blog was hosted by Google-owned Blogger.
Web ventures like Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Blogger and YouTube might not generate much revenue compared with Google's mammoth search business, but they're not mere side projects.
Google-owned properties like YouTube, Blogger, Google Images and Google Maps already show up frequently in Google search results, points out search engine marketer Rand Fishkin.
This is clearly a problem for those who host material, such as Google through their Blogger platform.
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Tools such as Google's Blogger, MovableType and the recently launched beta version of MSN Spaces are making it easier to run a blog.
Google-owned Blogger allows users to publish their first post within 30 minutes of starting, or even sooner if the user already has an account with Google.
When Google acquired the Blogger Web publishing system from Pyra Labs in 2003, it got itself a ready-made network of hundreds of thousands of regularly updated blogs.
More than 10 million users worldwide use the company's services, but competition has become more heated, and includes Google's Blogger, Microsoft 's MSN Spaces, weblogs from Xanga Inc. and even open source software such as WordPress.
More than 10 million users worldwide use the company's services, but competition has become more heated, and includes Google's Blogger, Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) MSN Spaces, weblogs from Xanga Inc. and even open source software such as WordPress.
Stone first started working with Williams and Goldman in 2003 at Google while working on Blogger.
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On Monday, the judge ordered Google to turn the blogger in, or at least reveal her e-mail and IP address.
By buying Blogger, Google suddenly gained access to lots of existing content.
Now you run the risk of a Google car driving by with a roof-mounted camera, it snapping your photo, the photo being uploaded as a Street View on Google Maps, a blogger noticing it, uploading it to their website, where it then goes viral, so the whole world can look at their computer screens and laugh.
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If Google really wanted to get in on the social-networking game, it would connect Blogger to Gmail or Google Base, but as of now the site is not integrated with other Google products.
Google's move to grab Blogger will likely kick off a string of "me-too" acquisitions by other Internet players.
That also put it behind Google's weblog publishing tool Blogger, as well as Twitter, Wordspace, Myspace, Linkedin and Tumblr.
Tim Carmody, a blogger at Wired, posted on Google Plus a 2001 video of Jobs introducing the first Apple store.
News, Maps, the acquisition of Blogger.com and Gmail all happened before Google went public.
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Goldman previously worked with Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone on Blogger, before the company was bought by Google.
California-based Google also owns YouTube, photo-sharing service Picasa and Blogger.
Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin waged a very public fight against Google for not granting her family access to the account of a cousin who went missing in 2011.
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And indeed, one blogger on this topic suggested, basically, just Google it and find your way to the original sources much as the Compendia Branch did.
That doesn't mean that semantic search won't someday offer results that Google doesn't, says Chris Sherman, a search engine analyst and blogger for Search Engine Land.
's MySpace and Time Warner 's AOL could theoretically take their business away from DoubleClick as well, given that Google has begun transforming into a rival publisher via sites like YouTube and its Blogger network.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace and Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) AOL could theoretically take their business away from DoubleClick as well, given that Google has begun transforming into a rival publisher via sites like YouTube and its Blogger network.
Instead he is trusting the "many little make one big" approach of buying little firms like Blogger, a personal publishing service, or Keyhole, the basis for the popular Google Earth service, which has more than 100 million users.
Danny Sullivan, a search industry expert and blogger for Search Engine Land, concurs with Cutts: There's nothing nefarious about Google's protecting its user-focused emphasis on relevant results, he says.
"As a search engine, Google's job is to point at things, " says Danny Sullivan, a search analyst and blogger for Search Engine Land.
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