There is nothing conspiratorial about a company trying to make a buck while providing a service. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. Praise Google for having some vision. Just like Yahoo! before it. That was the point I was trying to make in my previous post that may have gotten lost. The Blogger team deserves this day and has helped to establish a new medium.

For a similar view, check out Google don’t blink at Scripting News and his overall thoughts on the deal.

Search Engine Watch: Google Buys Blogging Company – But Why?.

Threads: Blogroots and Metafilter.

Boing Boing: Gbloogle: what it all (may) mean.

On oldie but goodie: Jakob Nielsen: Why Yahoo is Good (But May Get Worse). Read it and compare to present day Google. 1998!

Another oldie: Louis B. Rosenfeld: The Untimely Death of Yahoo. 1995!

And another!: Traffick.com: Why Yahoo Is No Longer Good. Just last year.

And back to the issue at hand… NYTimes: Google Deal Ties Company to Weblogs. Whadda stupid title for this story! Google hasn’t “tied” itself to weblogs anymore then it tied itself to newsgroups upon purchasing DejaNews.

Congrats to Dan on the NYTimes mention and scooping just about everybody!