Comments on: Next, Google Should Buy Wordpress

By: Alice Verheij

Alice Verheij — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:02:00 +0000

Dear all,

If ever (!) Google would acquire WordPress I shall be the first to dump Wordpress. Google works for me for mail and maps and services like that. But my writing spot is to dear to me to hand it over into the arms of a company like Google. They behave themselves on the net like the banks did in the financial industry. In the end even Google will experience a downfall resulting from a lack of moral.

If indeed it might ever happen I will kickstart my own blogging server in stead, granting me independancy as a writer.

WordPress will stay open source, I sincerely hope.
And Google’s browser is not interesting for me anyway as I prefer Mac’s and - again - Google is slow in supporting OSX as a OS platform.

Last but not least of all I am not interested in a service connected to a simple browser like Chrome where I have a wonderful open source browser platform in FireFox.

Regards,
Alice

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By: Guy Rosen

Guy Rosen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:29:19 +0000

How would buying WordPress be resolved with Google owning Blogger? It would be a two-way strategy - although perhaps that makes sense given that I’m still confused by Google launching Chrome just days after announcing their continued support of Mozilla Firefox.

Looks like someone likes to hedge their bets.

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By: Yuvi

Yuvi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:18:45 +0000

+1 Aaron. I like my wordpress working and not-behind-iron-curtains thank-you-very-much

By: suresh

suresh — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:40:46 +0000

Looking like a good idea.
Any way blog spot is also a good platform .
The flexibility it offers in editing the code is not offered by word press.
Free word press blog can not have third party ads like google.

Google has to integrate the good features of word press in blog spot( in fact it is trying to do so like giving option of comment form with blogspot draft…) and make it more attractive.

Two different platforms with one owner may effect the precepts of any one.

By: Ed Lee

Ed Lee — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:20:05 +0000

Mark,

acquiring WP would certainly (in my eyes) give Google a better blogging platform but not a bigger on. Check out the disparity between blogger.com and wordpress.com on Alexa (not conclusive but certainly illustrative).

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Google Blog Platform — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:39:42 +0000

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By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:06:59 +0000

I think it’s just as likely that Google could start their own WordPress powered blogging platform. Of course, there would be internal conflict with Blogger, but then there’s no reason that a WordPress powered blog platform could not be the replacement for Blogger.

At the end of the day, the real selling point between Blogger and WordPress.com, as free blog hosting competitors, is the management issue. WordPress.com gets high marks on the anti-splog front. Engineers could replicate the Blogger domain hosting as WP.com has. Engineers could counnter the WP.com restrictions around javascript by allowing javascript as they do on Blogger.

No reason why Google couldn’t use the WP open source platform to transform their crappy Blogger service if they wanted to.

That would, of course, pour loads of resources into the development of the software, something those of us in the WP community would welcome.