Google Blogoscoped

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Google Blogoscoped
Type of site
Blog
OwnerPhilipp Lenssen
Created byPhilipp Lenssen
URL http://blogoscoped.com/
CommercialNo
RegistrationNot required
Current statusIn read-only mode

Google Blogoscoped is a blog authored by Philipp Lenssen. [1] It has been covering the search engine company Google from 2003 to 2011.

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It is respected by the company it covers, as it is linked to from Google's official blog as part of the "What We're Reading" section. [2] It is consistently in Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs. [3]

John Battelle includes the website in his 2005 book about Google, The Search. [4]

Books based on information from Google Blogoscoped

In 2006 Lenssen wrote the book 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google, [1] which is released under a Creative Commons license.[ citation needed ]

In April 2008, Lenssen wrote the book Google Apps Hacks, presenting hacks, workarounds and undocumented tips for Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar and other Google applications. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "55 Ways to have fun with Google". ZDNet. 2006-06-01. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  2. "Official Google Blog". Google . Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  3. "Google Blogoscoped on Technorati". Technorati. Archived from the original on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  4. Batelle, John (2006). The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture . ISBN   1-5918-4141-0.
  5. "Grab a Free Chapter of Google Apps Hacks". Lifehacker. 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2013-10-21.