If you’re reading this post, chances are you’ve probably visited a real Official Google blog at least once… Yes? Google loves to post announcements about everything from their APIs to Youtube censorship fiascoes, and they’ve created this gadget to help you keep track of it all. It lets you choose a content-category from a drop down and see the latest three Google blog posts relating to that category. For example, if I choose “Google-wide” I see two postings from the official Google blog and one from the Google Mac blog.

So why is this useful? In short, in saves you from cluttering up a whole tab with Google blog feeds (if you prefer the tab, Google’s created that too). The only problem here is that for some bizarre reason the developer has included all the international blogs in the content mix, which leads to duplicated posts across countries and content showing up in Japanese, German and a bunch of other languages I don’t happen to speak. How many English speakers can read Japanese? Why isn’t they’re an option to see only English-language posts (or only Japanese posts if you’re from Japan)? Why Google, why? Apparently there are plans to use the language API to translate these foreign posts into English, but regardless, I’d still like to have the option to filter them out. In any case, if you’re a Google fan like me and you like having a little digest from their many blogs, then this gadget should come in handy.