Google buys Blogger

Hi Folks ,
After a long time i tried loging in to my blog and saw that now ownwards i need to use the google id to login .Ghosssh has google bought Blogger. i tried searching over the google and realized that google had bought Blogger in 2003 and i was not aware of it till now .what a shame right ,its life i guess .I will leave you with some pointers which i found on this buyout
:- http://slate.msn.com/id/2079747/
:-http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000837.html