Editing Blogger (service) (section)

{{short description|Blogging platform currently owned by Google}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = Blogger
| logo = [[File:Blogger icon 2017.svg|90px|Blogger logo]]
| logo_caption = 
| screenshot = 
| caption = Blogger's Updated Interface
| url = {{URL|https://www.blogger.com/}}
| commercial = Yes
| type = [[Blog publishing system|Blog host]]
| registration = Optional, Free
| language = [[#Available languages|See below]]
| country_of_origin = United States
| area_served = Worldwide
| owner = [[Google]]
| founder = {{Unbulleted list|class=nowrap|[[Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)|Evan Williams]]|[[Meg Hourihan]]}}
| programming_language = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|1999|8|23}}<ref name="story">{{cite web |url=http://www.blogger.com/about |title=The Story of Blogger |publisher=Blogger.com |date=October 8, 2003 |access-date=December 25, 2011 |archive-date=April 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419040257/http://www.blogger.com/about |url-status=live }}</ref>
| current_status = Active
}}
'''Blogger''' is an American online [[content management system]] founded in 1999 that enables its users to write [[blog]]s with time-stamped entries. [[Pyra Labs]] developed it before being acquired by [[Google]] in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of '''blogspot.com'''. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned [[Domain name|custom domain]] (such as www.example.com) by using [[Domain Name System|DNS]] facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.<ref name="story" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387|title=Set up a custom domain - Blogger Help|website=support.google.com|language=en|access-date=June 2, 2018|archive-date=October 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025104334/https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://buzz.blogger.com/2015/01/custom-domains-for-your-blog-made-easy_13.html|title=Custom domains for your blog made easy|publisher=buzz.blogger.com|access-date=January 13, 2015|archive-date=January 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118185503/http://buzz.blogger.com/2015/01/custom-domains-for-your-blog-made-easy_13.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/42348?hl=en|title=the limits on my Blogger account|access-date=January 8, 2014|archive-date=January 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108062334/https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/42348?hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>

Blogger enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] until May 1, 2010. All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a blogspot.com [[subdomain]] or point their own domain to Google's servers via [[Domain Name System|DNS]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Important Note to FTP Users|url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2010/01/important-note-to-ftp-users.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 25, 2011|publisher=Official Blogger Blog|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906223017/https://blogger.googleblog.com/2010/01/important-note-to-ftp-users.html |archive-date=September 6, 2016 }}</ref>