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Blogger, which google acquired a while back is now ten years old. Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary by distributing presents. Its been quite a journey for blogger since its acquisition and the last ten years have seen tons and tons of blogs being added to blogger.

So as I surfed the web today, like any other good internet citizen I faithfully typed google.com into the browser address bar. Here is what I saw

Google promotes reader:

I don’t remember google promoting reader on their front page before. Google does seem to value its bloggers a lot. Google wave is set to hit the internet somewhere in the near future. It will integrate with blogs, comments, social sites etc etc, and google is already in a good position to facilitate this. Google houses a social website, a web browser – Chrome, a blogging web site – Blogger,  a feed reader – Google Reader, a document service – Google docs, a video  service – Youtube, and many more elements that make google a good competitor in the social arena. Google wave will help bind all this together. When google wave does make it live, it will be very interesting to see how it all plays out. Perhaps google will promote wave on its front page then