Blogger's new platform is to be called Dano, and according the the documentation, all the blogs currently powered by Blogger will be migrated to Dano in the next 'couple of weeks'.

Blogger.com, Dano FAQ— "A new feature listing can be found here and there are even greater things in the pipeline. Now that we've joined up with Google, we're more excited than ever to start building on top of Dano.

That's basically our goal in releasing Dano. First, we wanted to deliver a significantly improved user experience in terms of stability and ease-of-use. And then we've written the framework to let us easily add in new features as quickly as we can finish them."  more...

Andrew Orlowski, The Register— "Google is to create a search tool specifically for weblogs, most likely giving material generated by the self-publishing tools its own tab.

CEO Eric Schmidt made the announcement on Monday, at the JP Morgan Technology and Telecom conference. 'Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs, known as "blogs,"' reported Reuters.

It isn't clear if weblogs will be removed from the main search results, but precedent suggests they will be. After Google acquired Usenet groups from Deja.com, it developed a unique user interface and a refined search engine, and removed the groups from the main index. After a sticky start, Usenet veterans welcomed the new interface. Google recently acquired Blogger, and sources suggest this is the most likely option.

Bloggers too are likely to welcome their very own tab as a legitimization of the publishing format. But many others will breathe a sigh of relief as blogs disappear from the main index."  more...