I recently discovered that Google are behind a lot of interesting blogs. You can see the full range of these offerings on the sidebars of the blogs that I link to in this post. The first one I saw was the Google Public Policy Blog, Google's views on governmnet, policy and politics. The most recent post in that blog is by Iarla Flynn, the European Policy Manager at Google Ireland, and it discusses the upcoming vote by Irish citizens on the Lisbon Treaty.
Another Google Blog that caught my eye is the Google Finance Blog, which provides news and views from the team at Google Finance. The most recent post on that blog, by Matthew Simmons (Google Market Data Gnome) describes "how real-time last sale prices for NASDAQ listed stocks are now available on Google Finance and other Google search properties - prices will update automatically, once per second, to reflect current market conditions."
Finally, the main Google Research Blog covers some of the issues that are broached on the aforementioned blogs, plus more. I've put this and Google's Public Policy Blog on the blogroll below. A post on the Google Research Blog from the 6th June (here) picks up on the debate about ways to save on gas and avoid driving, with the suggested tactic to encourage take-up of public transportation (Dave C might be interested in this).
Furthermore, the 6th June post describes how Google are working with public transportation agencies to get bus and train schedules, and integrate this information into Google Maps. They have just launched transit directions in Google Maps for mobile so that people can get this information when they are out and about in more than 50 cities across the globe. "Right now transit directions are available on the latest Google Maps for mobile release on BlackBerry and many Java-based phones." For more details, see the Google Mobile Blog.
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