Thursday, June 08, 2006

Blogger

Blogger was down most of the day. All the blogger sites I watch suffered from slow server issues all day long. I don't guess we should bitch, because we get what we pay for. With Blogger, that is exactly zero.

So, how does someone give up this much bandwidth and make money doing it? Or is Blogger some big altruistic organization who gives us all a spot on the bulletin board?

Not much in their FAQ about it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Blogger is an information mine funded by the NSA, i.e., it's a cheap way for Big Brother to watch us.

Anonymous said...

Well I assumed that there were ads, but I checked and I'm not blocking any.

I also assumed there was an upgraded pay service you could buy.

Most blogs really don't cost a lot of bandwidth, I know I don't use a tenth of my alotment (A bunch 'o GB for $4/month). Google buys bandwith wholesale and also owns it's own fiber backbones.

Google owns blogger. I assume they data-mine it for trends and sell that data to corporations and campaigns too.