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> There was concern in the wider blogging community that Google might use its power in search to give people an incentive to use Blogger over other publishing p
by tonfa 13y ago
> There was concern in the wider blogging community that Google might use its power in search to give people an incentive to use Blogger over other publishing platforms. They said this would never happen.
> But a few weeks after the deal they broke the promise. They added a BlogThis! button to Google Toolbar.
I don't really see how adding something to the toolbar would be using your "power in search".
- smacktoward 13y agoThe Google Toolbar was once a very widely used piece of software. The vast majority of those who used it did so to add a Google search box into their browser chrome. So integrating unrelated services into the toolbar was a way to use the popularity of their search product to boost the visibility of other, unrelated products.
- davewiner 13y agoThe promise wasn't specific to search.