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It should be no surprise that Google, as a company, has really embraced blogging. Googler, as it turns out, are great bloggers and have lot of interesting things to tell us about their company. They have never really been ones for corporate transparency, but Google is a big company and a lot of cool things are always being churned out so its great to get whatever insights we can, or at least be informed of new developments.

Google’s main blog, googleblog.blogspot.com, takes a little-bit-of-everything approach and fills us in on big developments like Google Apps Premier, nofollow tags, Google Maps traffic information, translation suggestion, and online child safety, but also covers lighter topics. This lighter subject matter includes new (National Engineer’s Week!), personal posts, and the like, and are probably put there to remind us that the company is not run by robots, at least not exclusively.

But that’s not it, there are a load of other blogs as well. Google Analytics has its own blog,  so does Reader (this appears on the front page of Reader), Adsense, and others. Gmail does not have one, which is disappointing, but it’s news is alway highly publicized anyway.

Not only do Google’s services have blogs, but many of their people do as well. Lot’s of people read Matt Cutts‘ blog, which is not an official Google blog, but is often read as such.  Other Googler’s with blogs include Bladam, fury.com, beust, snarfed, and Shellen.org, but there are a lot more. Aside from Matt Cutts’, most are pretty small but if you look you may stumble on some good content. Even ex-Googlers blog…

I’ve been a reader of Google’s main blog for some time now, but never really bothered to investigate the page. As is turns out some are pretty good. They don’t have comments, which is really disappointing, but given how much impact Google has on the internet, and through the net, our lives, it is nice to keep tabs on the company.

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