John Battelle is the author of "The Search: How Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture", a new book which examines the effect of the search engine giant's revolutionary - and hugely successful - business.
John's got a long history with some of the technology industry's biggest publication, including being a co-founding editor of Wired magazine, and as the founder of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. He watches the search industry on his weblog - and he's kindly going to be answering readers' questions on Google, search engines, technology and the future.
If you want to ask John a question, leave it in the comments below. He'll be answering them in due course.
Update: John has now responded to these questions, and his answers are here.
