Updating Google's voice in Europe

Monday, August 20, 2012

Updating Google's voice in Europe

Today, this blog is making a small but significant change to its name. The Google European Public Policy Blog is becoming the Google Europe Blog.

When we first launched this blog four years ago, the idea was to focus on Brussels-based European Union policy issues. Our horizons and subject matter have since expanded. Instead of dealing just with policy we began blogging on the revival of Internet history projects, free expression, cultural and economic outreach, and other Google and YouTube activities.

We publish on average three posts weekly, with readership averaging around 60,000 a week. Initially, most of our readers came from the United States. Today we have fast-growing numbers of readers in the UK, France, Belgium and Germany.

Our goal has become become a one-shot destination of choice for Google in Europe. The new Google Europe Blog name reflects this ambition.