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How do you find good quality information about Google? How do you make sense of everything that is floating around about the do's and the dont's of getting your website into Google? IN this article, Google Village provides you with a list of the best forums and locations with information about Google.

This list provides an overview of the places where Google is discussed. If you know of others, then please email Google Village with new links:

Google Fan Email, News and Links
A site with 18 members that provides a summary of Google News listed elsewhere, links across the web to sites talking or doing interesting things with Google.

I Help You Services
This site has 2,049 members at the time of writing. This community has a heavy dose of SEO population and many discussions are about how to get around the rules of Google. A good one to watch to hear what the average website owner is thinking. Many small websites who are not getting good results in Google represented here.

Cre8asite Forums
A new community started August 2002 and seems to be a well run community. There are 384 registered users and most seem quite active in discussions. Discussions range from Google to anything about creating websites.

Search Engine Forums (Jim World)
There are many people here in discussion. The site does not indicate how many people. A good number of topics mostly about getting better showing in Google by webmasters.

Webmaster World
Perhaps the most dignified of all the forums. A good number of members (although actual number undisclosed) who have generated 350,000 messages and more. Google section is highly acclaimed with an excellent knowledgebase on Google.

Google Groups
There are a number of discussion groups in the main Google Groups arena. The largest of these is google.public.support.general, and the others include: google.public.translators, google.public.web-apis, and all the lab discussion groups google.public.labs.webquotes, google.public.labs.google-viewer, google.public.labs.glossary, google.public.labs.sets, google.public.labs.voice-search, google.public.labs.keyboard-shortcuts, alt.internet.search-engines.

Spider Food Forums
Approximately 1,350 people subscribe to forums in this general group. There is a specific forum for Google that produces a good number of messages a day.

Search Engine Optimisation Forums
While this is not directly on Google, many messages do discuss Google from time to time. There are some interesting tips and tools in this forum, including Chris's Desktop Toolbar Google.

SitePoint Forums
SitePoint has 20,070 members with more than 4,500 messages discussing Google directly, while there are other messages related to search engines that equally apply to Google out of a total of 650,000 messages. This is worthwhile looking at from a Google perspective.

If following the forums is too much, then you may wish to read some of the weblogs that discuss Google. Some of these you can subscribe to daily newsfeeds:

Google Village
The daily newsfeed you are reading now. Subscribe here.

Smoogle
If you are an individual user of Google and must seek out new information online, then you might want to subscribe to this newsfeed. Especially interesting for librarians, teachers, students and researchers who must use the Internet to seek out new knowledge. Subcribe here.

Google Weblog (English)
This provides a summary of information about Google and points you to the latest with a little opinion from the writer.

Google Blog (French)
Want to read about Google in French, then this is a great site to start.

Google Blog (Spanish)
A Spanish weblog you should read if you cannot read English.

Google Blog (Korean)
Specialist site in Korean. Covers some of the issues to do with searching when English is not your preferred language.

Google Blog (Japanese)
Japanese love Google. Read about it in Japanese.

TRUCOSDEGOOGLE (Spanish)
An alternative Spanish weblog.

Now if you are still seeking for more information about Google, you may wish to go to GooFresh and enter the word -- Google -- into the GooFresh search field and find anything added to the Google database about Google today!++

[Elwyn Jenkins: Google™ Village]

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