Here are 10 important links that every Google user should know about.
They are tucked away, somewhere deep inside your Google dashboard.
1.
Create a new Google Account using your existing email address. The
regular sign-up process uses your @gmail.com address as your Google
account username but with this special URL, you can use any other email
address as your username.
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2.
Google creates a profile of yourself based on the sites you visit, your
Google+ account and other signals. They try to guess your age, gender
and interests and then use this data to serve you more relevant ads. Use
this URL to know how Google sees you on the web.
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3.
Google lets you export all your data out of the Google ecosystem. You
can download your photos, contacts, Gmail messages and even your
YouTube videos. Head over the the Takeout page to grab the download links.
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4.
If you ever find your content appearing on another website that is
using one or more Google products – say Blogger, AdSense, Google+ or
YouTube - you can raise a
DMCA complaint
with Google against that site to get that content removed. This wizard
can also be used to remove websites from Google search results that are
scraping your content.
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5.
Your Android device may be reporting your recent location data and
velocity (are you moving and if yes, how fast are you moving) back to
Google servers. Head over to the Google Maps website to see your entire
location history and you also have the option to export this data as KML
files that can be viewed inside Google Earth or even Google Drive.
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6.
Google records every search term that you’ve ever typed into their
search boxes. They even keep a log of every ad that you have clicked on
various Google websites.
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7.
You need to login to your Gmail account at least once every 9 months
else Google may terminate your account according to their
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This
can be an issue if you have multiple Gmail accounts so as a workaround,
you can setup your main Gmail account as the trusted content for your
secondary accounts. Thus Google will keep sending you reminders every
few months to login to your other accounts. Not available for Google
Apps.
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8.
Worried that someone else is using your Google account. Go to the
activity report to see a log of every device that has recently been used
to log into your Google account. You also get to know the I.P. Address
and their approximate geographic location. Unfortunately, you can’t
remotely log out of a Google session.
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9. This is a complete list of web apps, browser extensions,
Google Scripts
and mobile apps that have any read or write access to your Google data.
If the permission level says “access to basic account info”, it
basically means that you have used your Google account to sign-in to
that app.
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10. This is important URL for Google Apps users. If your Google Account ever gets
hacked,
use this secret link to reset your admin password. You’ll be asked to
verify your domain name by creating a CNAME record in your DNS.
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