I believe many people will go out of business if blogspot goes out of business. Many people's blogshops will no longer be there and they have to find another platform like wordpress.

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Google will never do this.
Because they are earning allot of profet through Blogger

You will loose your blog.. so if you anticipate this circumstances, you need to backup your blog.. Just switch host by then.

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I don't think it will go off. Its a google made think, not a joke.

Google is a listed company and a very profitable company. I dont see how they can shut down. I dont see why they want to close down blogspot too. The only problem is that they dont delete blogs that have no update for years. Those bloggers may be dead, yet their blogs are taking up cyberspace, and laying claim on the blog name.

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i donnot know why there are many free blog sources are out of service.what i wrote has disappear. it is very disappointing.some sites even cannot be opened.may be there are too many unrelated information in it.

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they wont , i guess...
if they, we wud definitely loose our work..

Don't believe it will be going anywhere...blogspot blogs advertise many of the ads that Google sells...ads are how Google makes money. If Google decides they don't like money I guess they will close blogspot. I would say back up your blog just in case Google decides they don't like money anymore

Who knows if it may ever happen? It is a free service with so many users. It doesn't make revenue sense to give so much support to a system unless they earn from it. I suspect they will eventually take the Wordpress route and start charging for various stuff.

I used blogspot for a few years, switched to WP and am now fully self hosted.

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I'm quite sure it's safe to use blogspot for atleast 5 more years.
And if you haven't got your own website by then, chances are your blog is not worth spending time on x'D