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Google launches another blog - do we care?

By scott

I notice that Google has launched a Social Web blog, which will provide ‘news and updates about Google products that are helping to make the web more social.’  Now this sounds all well and good and might turn out to be a useful and informative resource, or it might just turn out to be a repeat of the Google Librarian Central blog. Remember that one?

Last summer Google pulled the plug on this half-hearted attempt, to reach out to the Librarian/Information professional sector, so that it could focus its energies on the connected quarterly newsletter - Google Librarian Newsletter. This dazzling level of focus resulted in the issue published at the time they closed the blog, to focus their energies, (10 July 2008) being the last one actually published.

Seven months have now passed: so they have either mislaid that focus or just have no news to report.

The Social web blog is off to a good start with me as it does not display properly in IE6 (at least not my work version) with my needing to scroll half a blank page to get to the first post.

Full post as published by Information Overload on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).