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.

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With its acquisition of Pyra Labs , Web-search juggernaut Google.com apparently sees dollar signs in the business of letting anyone easily publish their comments and thoughts on the Web.

FORBES: Google Goes Blog-Crazy

San Fransisco-based Pyra Labs launched in 1999 with the financial backing of investors such as computer book publisher O'Reilly and Associates , and privately held magazine publisher Advance Publications .

FORBES: Google Goes Blog-Crazy