EJC launches GoogleWatch

The EJC is now launching GoogleWatch, a stand-alone platform that enables a deeper look at the global conversation about Google.

Over the past decade, Google has swelled to successfully provide a range of services such as e-mail, translation, advertising, and YouTube. These products are utilised around the globe and have transformed how we interact with information.

Google's steps into our lives reverberate louder with each passing day. The ways this company affects the way we interface with news information cannot be overstated.

It deserves a closer look

"It is a major player in all kind of industries," EJC director Wilfried Ruetten said. "It deserves some closer scrutiny."

The EJC has utilised the real-time aggregation possibilities of Soup.io to generate a platform that works nonstop to gather news and analysis about Google from around the world. The organisation thinks this resource facilitates a thorough examination of how Google's approach to data and information has impacted European media and society.

EJC's GoogleWatch is designed to be useful for journalists, researchers, bloggers and students interested in the transformative properties of this California-based company.

It is an Open Source resource, meaning that interested parties may examine the processes EJC has used to create their GoogleWatch. This open approach also allows the organisation to encourage interested colleagues to adapt and build on EJC's work.