Google’s Blogging Philosophy

By Mark O’Neill

One of the many things that’s so good about Google is their policy of writing official blogs for each of their services. Some of these blogs can be a little stuffy and commercialised but nevertheless they are a good way of keeping up with Google developments. The main Google blog boasts a RSS subscriber feed of 627,000!

I’ve often read that Google encourages their employees to start writing blogs to keep the outside world informed of what’s going on in the Googleplex. This is an excellent company policy and long may it continue. It does tend to sometimes fire back in Google’s face however when fired employees take out their grievances with the company online in their blogs. But on the whole, Google’s blogging policy works well.

Here’s a list of the official Google blogs that I consider to be the most interesting and the most relevant to the average Google user.

The official Google blog has a longer list of official blogs including the foreign language blogs and the developer API blogs. But since readers of Google Tutor are predominantly English-speaking, I have excluded the foreign blogs from this list.

Why not subscribe to these blogs using your Google Reader?!
Blogger Buzz
Custom Search Engine blog
Google Analytics blog
Google Base blog
Google Checkout blog
Google Enterprise blog
Google Finance blog
Google Gmail Blog
Google Health Advertising Blog
Google LatLong (blog for Google Earth and Maps)
Google Mac blog
Google News Blog
Google Online Security blog
Google Photos Blog
Google Public Policy Blog
Google Reader blog
Google Research blog
Google SketchUp blog
Google Talkabout
Google Web Toolkit blog
Google.org blog
Inside AdSense
Inside AdWords
Inside Google Book Search
Inside Google Desktop
Librarian Central
Official Google blog
Orkut Blog
Webmaster Central blog
YouTube blog