Yahoo Has Introduced Blogging Catching Up with Google

As usual, Yahoo likes to sit on the fence and watch what really works while its more robust competitor Google experiments with new ideas, and when it sees something really working and it is going to cost it visitors, it will jump the gun and introduce it to its customer base. One such case is the recent introduction of blogging to its paying subscribers even if Google had its Blogger site since it bought the company in 2003 and had been providing the service free ever since, which had become among the many blog providers that many people are flocking to, because it is very easy to setup, and to say the least it is state-of-the-art.

Yahoo recently has hired a company called Six Apart which has developed a blogging software known as Movable Type that is not different from the other blogging software that are in use, except that the news release stated that the software is specifically optimized for Yahoo's hosting environment, probably making it 140 percent faster than the other hosting environments.

The blogging is available only for those who are already using Yahoo's Web hosting service, which starts from $11.95 that includes a free domain name and a business class email. Its targets are professionals, businesses, and corporate customers unlike Blogger that is available free for anyone, even if Blogger also has a premium version that goes with Google Web hosting service. Even if the Six Apart software had a free version too, Yahoo has not said anything if it is planning to introduce the blogging service for its free subscribers that are using Geocity and its free email programs among other services, or if it will open its door for the public like Google is doing.