Yesterday, the NYT business section devoted two separate stories to Google: Randall Stross talked about the pioneering of graphics-less ads while Roger Lowenstein reviewed David A. Vise and Mark Malseed's The Google Story, calling it an "uncritical, even celebratory approach."

Today it's the arts section's turn, as Janet Maslin delivers another review, calling The Google Story "glowing, sometimes credulous," and also taking note of John Batelle's Google book, The Search ("a more knowing, technical approach...more inclined to look for trouble"). Meanwhile, Katie Hafner checks in with the Harvard librarian collaborating with Google Book Search, who is "surprised by the vehemence" of the publishing industry against the online scanning project.

So whose turn will it be tomorrow? Well, Tuesday is science day at the Times, so there's one possibility...