Google Blogoscoped
Google Blogoscoped is a blog authored by Philipp Lenssen covering The Search Engine company Google. While it concentrates on Google, it has a "Contains 80% Google" stamp, representing the fact that Lenssen also writes AbOUT other things that interest him including other search engines, web development, global affairs and even comic book characters.
Lenssen, from Stuttgart, Germany, writes the vast majority of the posts. Past co-bloggers include Tony Ruscoe, Terrence Gordon, Tadeusz Szewczyk, Mark Malseed, Justin Pfister, Seth Finkelstein, Brinke Guthrie, Ludwik Trammer and Ionut Alex. Chitu. The blog has an ACTIVE forum which also contains the comments on posts.
It is linked to from Google's official blog as part of the "What We're Reading" section, and is consistently in Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs.
John Battelle includes the website in his 2005 book about Google, The Search.
In 2006 Lenssen wrote also the book '55 Ways to Have Fun with Google'. The book was 'born out' of the Google Blogoscoped blog and is available under the Creative Common License.