Like Kremlinologists of the past, people are now analyzing Google's every move the way they once followed Microsoft.

Exhibit A today is a piece from Jim Hedger on Google's latest patent application. But the same things can be found any day of the week. Just enter the word Google at Google News and here's what you'll come up with today:

• Several features on Google executives forgoing pay to meet earnings targets.
  
• Google's latest experiment in helping people find taxis.
  
• The French are mad that Google's indexing books in English (at the same time they're trying to control its commercial activity in France).
  
• Google's new Q&A service.
  
• Our own Dominic Basulto analyzing a Times article on how Google's text ads are being abused.
  

And that's just on regular news sites. We're not yet talking about the blogosphere:

• Coding the Web maintains a special log just for news stories on Google. Most of those listed today aren't among those listed above.
• Jason Zawodny's analysis of the differences between Yahoo and Google.
• There are literally dozens of entire blogs devoted to Google.

I've just scratched the surface of what you might call the Googlesphere. Why not use the comments here to offer your own favorites.