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  • Is Google too powerful?

    02/23/2003 4:57:25 PM PST · by WaterDragon · 43 replies · 335+ views
    BBC.UK ^ | February 21, 2003 | Bill Thompson
    Everyone's favourite search engine now owns the world's most popular blogging tool. With its purchase of Pyra Labs, Google now runs Blogger and with it the weblogs of hundreds of thousands of opinionated net users. The story of the buyout was, appropriately enough, broken on a weblog by journalist Dan Gillmor, shortly followed by an 'official' announcement on his personal blog from Prya Labs co-founder Evan Williams. Then the blogs and technology news sites went wild, making this the net news story of the week, if not the month. Not journalism We should not get carried away by all this.Ridiculous...