Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created Blogger, some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals. For Williams and his five co-workers, now Google employees, the immediate impact will be to put their blog hosting service, called Blog*Spot, on the vast network of server computers Google operates. This will make the service more reliable and robust.

In further news, it is rumoured that ROTW Editor, Mr. Byron Hughes is now in receipt of a salary that mere mortals can only dream of. Part of his salary package includes such fringe benefits as unlimited use of the gold plated skateboard for moving around the Google offices, an automatically reverse positioning baseball cap for each day of the week and 24 hour access to Ethel Frobisher, Google's cleaning lady and lap top dancer.