Blogger, initially developed by Evan Williams and Pyra Labs, was sold to Google in 2003. Once avant garde, the product has stagnated as hipper and faster blogging platforms think WordPress, Tumblr and even Twitter (also by Williams) have taken off.

Blogger is one of the oldest of the free blogging software services. It was launched back in 1999 and Google acquired Blogger in 2003. However, as News.com points out, the service is well behind the leading content management system WordPress. At the moment over 56 million blogs and web sites use WordPress's content management tools, with a whopping 100,000 new WordPress-based sites launching every day. Half of those sites are hosted by WordPress as well.