Blogger的故事

Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999.

Blogger是由一家小公司在旧金山的要求， Pyra概实验室1999年8月。

This was in the midst of the dot-com boom.

这是处于网路热潮。

But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit.

但是，我们并不完全是那种由风险资本家投资，开开派对， foosball ，在大厅里播放，免费啤酒的饮用水装备。

(Unless it was other people's free beer.) （除非那是别人的免费啤酒。 ）

We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape.

我们是三个朋友的资助下，做恼人的网络项目的大公司，努力使我们自己的大门口到了互联网上的景观。

What we were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now.

我们原本想做没有现在不是那么重要了。

But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm...

但在做的过程，我们建立了Blogger ，或多或少是一种突发奇想，当时想着-嗯...

that's kinda interesting.这还挺有趣的。

Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. Blogger的起飞，在一个小的方式，规模终于大了些，经过几年之后。

We raised a little money (but stayed small).

我们筹到一点钱（但仍维持小规模） 。

And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun.

然后胸部，我们花光了钱，有趣的创业旅程就没那么好玩了。

We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up.

我们死里逃生，但并非所有在一块，但随时提供服务的整个（大多数的时候） ，并开始重建。

Things were going well again in 2002.

时候一切还都不错， 2002年。

We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people.

我们有几十万个用户，虽然员工仍只有几人。

And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us .

然后，出人意料的事情发生：谷歌想要收购我们 。 Yes, that Google 是的 ，谷歌

We liked Google a lot.我们很喜欢谷歌了很多东西。

And they liked blogs.他们很喜欢博客。

So we were amenable to the idea.所以，我们所见略同。

And it worked out nicely.结果皆大欢喜。

Now we're a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective.

现在，我们一小（但比以前稍大）队在谷歌专注于协助人们发出自己的声音，在网络上和组织全世界的信息，从个人视角。

Which has pretty much always been our whole deal.这几乎一直是我们的全部使命。

For more on Google, check google.com .

欲了解更多关于谷歌检查google.com 。 (Also good for searching.) （用来搜索也不错。 ）