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News.com: Blogger Pro for free

Blogger Pro, the paid for blogging service owned by Google, eliminates all user fees and offers the premium Blogger services for free.

Google-owned Web log-creation site Blogger is eliminating its paid version and folding premium functions into its free service, bucking a trend toward making people pay for Web site extras.

Is this an act of benevolence or a way of meeting the threat from perhaps superior service TypePad, the hosted version of Movable Type?

"Pro subscribers helped keep us going as a struggling start-up, when servers and bandwidth were at an extreme premium," Williams wrote. "We wanted to keep basic Blogger free, but we needed to start charging in order to keep the lights on…Today, as you may know, Blogger's situation is much different. For one thing, we're part of Google. Google has lots of computers and bandwidth. And Google believes blogs are important and good for the Web."

Blogger bucks premium-services trend | CNET News.com

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