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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Pyra Labs</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type of business</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">January 1, 1999<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1999-01-01</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div style="display:inline;" class="locality"><a href="San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, California</div>, <div style="display:inline;" class="country-name">U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Google" title="Google">Google</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Product_(business)" title="Product (business)">Products</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Blogger_(service)" title="Blogger (service)">Blogger</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pyra.com">pyra<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Offline, February 17, 2003</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Pyra Labs</b> is a subsidiary of <a href="Google" title="Google">Google</a> (<a href="Alphabet_Inc." title="Alphabet Inc.">Alphabet</a>) that created the <a href="Blogger_(service)" title="Blogger (service)">Blogger</a> service in 1999. Google acquired Pyra Labs in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>Pyra was co-founded by <a href="Evan_Williams_(Internet_entrepreneur)" title="Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)">Evan Williams</a> and <a href="Meg_Hourihan" title="Meg Hourihan">Meg Hourihan</a>. The company's first product, also named "Pyra", was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list. Their coder Paul Bausch altered an ftp program to work on a webpage, enabling online users to upload to a webpage web-log. In 1999, while still in beta, the rudiments of Pyra were repurposed into an in-house tool which became Blogger. The service was made available to the public in August 1999. Much of this coding was done by Paul Bausch and <a href="Matthew_Haughey" title="Matthew Haughey">Matthew Haughey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rosenberg-ch4_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rosenberg-ch4-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Initially, Blogger was completely free of charge and there was no <a href="Revenue_model" title="Revenue model">revenue model</a>. In January 2001, Pyra asked Blogger users for donations to buy a new server.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the company's <a href="Seed_money" title="Seed money">seed money</a> dried up around the same time, the employees continued without pay for weeks or, in some cases, months; but this could not last, and eventually Williams faced a mass walk-out by everyone including co-founder Hourihan. Williams ran the company virtually alone until he was able to secure an investment by <a href="Trellix_(1995%E2%80%932004)" title="Trellix (1995–2004)">Trellix</a> after its founder <a href="Dan_Bricklin" title="Dan Bricklin">Dan Bricklin</a> became aware of Pyra's situation. Eventually advertising-supported <a href="Blogger.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Blogger.com">Blogspot</a> and Blogger Pro emerged.
</p><p>In 2002, Blogger was completely re-written to license it to other companies, the first of which was <a href="Globo.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Globo.com">Globo.com</a> of <a href="Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>.
</p><p>On February 17, 2003, Pyra was acquired by <a href="Google" title="Google">Google</a> for an undisclosed sum.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFMcIntosh2003" class="citation web cs1">McIntosh, Neil (2003-02-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/18/digitalmedia.citynews">"Google buys Blogger web service"</a>. <i>the Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-01-25</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pyralab.com">Official site</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061016164215/http://meg.hourihan.com/2003/02/bloggers-history-reimagined">Blogger's History Reimagined</a></li>
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