Google expands the empire

I imagine that this will be a huge boost for Blogger (Bloogle? Glogger?) and for users of Blogger Pro, who will probably (eventually) get a whole load of new features courtesy of Google. Google, presumably, will get a great index of all the Blogger and Blog*spot supported blogs, but who knows what they plan to do with regards to non-Blogger weblogs. I also have a vague idea that even the non-Blog*spot free users (such as me) will slowly become more restricted in the features we have access to, or could have Google-style text ads imposed on our blogs. There's an interesting discussion going on at Burningbird.net, if you want to follow it more closely. Evan Williams (head of Pyra) says it will mean "great things" for all Blogger users (and non-Blogger users alike). In any case, it'll be interesting to watch.

And I can always move to Movable Type.

In meta-news[1], and rather unexpectedly, it seems I was the first person to submit the Opera borks MSN story to Boing Boing, who have credited me with it :)