As a Google user you may have asked all these questions yourself. Is
there any way to see the ads clicked by myself in Google? How Google
sees me and my interests? How to get the list of search terms I ever
typed in the search box and many more. You believe it are not, answers
to all these questions are hidden inside your Google Dashboard.All you need to do is reaching the right url. Check out the below 10 urls and get answered to all your queries.
No 1 : Create Google Account Without A Google Id
We all know the regular Google account sign up with @gmial.com user id. Don’t we? But what if you want to use any non Google id (rediff, outlook, yahoo etc) to sign up Google Account?
The below url makes it possible. In this sign up process you can use your any existing email account user name.
https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
No 2 : How Google Keeps You In Its Records
You may wonder how Google shows more relevant ads to your interests without explicitly asking your age, gender and preferences. It never asks explicitly but it gathers all such information by visiting your Google + account, your most frequent searches and other merits. To know how Google sees you, visit the url given here.
https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
No 3 : There’s A Way To Grab A Copy Of Your Google Data
Google lets you export all your data from its 16 products which includes contacts, Gmail messages, +1s, Google+ circles, Bookmarks, Google photos and even the YouTube videos
To grab a copy visit : https://www.google.com/takeout
No 4 : How To Remove Your Own Contents From Other Sites?
Sometimes you can see your own content or copy righted images appearing on other websites. In such cases, you can file a DMCA complaint with our search engine giant Google against that particular website. You can either have the content removed from the site or block that entire site appearing from the Search results.
To do this, the website you complain must use one or more Google products. For example blogger, Adsense, Youtube, Google+ and the many.
Get your content removed using the url : https://support.google.com/legal
No 5. How To Get Your Location History?
Regardless of whether or not you wish to send your location data to Google, if any of the Google product is signed-in in your Android device, it will start to send your entire relocation history along with the velocity( while moving) to the Google servers. You can take this history as KML files at any time using the url I cited below. These files can be viewed inside Google Drive or Google Earth.
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory
No 6 : See Your Search Terms From The Day 1
Google became our all time companion. At times, we are firing even the most absurd and funny questions. Wouldn’t it be cool if we have a way to track back all the search terms we have entered ever since in its search box? Google even maintains a log of ads you have clicked from the day 1 of your sign up.
To track your search terms, head over to the url : https://history.google.com
No 7 : Never Lose Your Secondary Gmail Accounts
On an average every one of us maintain 10 or more Google accounts. As time passes by, we forget the least used accounts and lose it entirely. Google requires the users to sign in to their Gmail accounts at least once for every 9 months.
You can easily maintain multiple Google Accounts by setting your main account as the active one for your secondary Google accounts. If you do so, few months once Google will send you the reminders to login to your associated secondary accounts. This feature is not available for Google Apps anyway.
To utilize this feature visit : https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive
No 8 : Inspect Who Else Uses Your Google Account
If you are worried about whether someone else is using your Google Account, check out your activity reports that keeps the log of each and every device that are used to sign in your Google Account. It also gives you a track on the IP address and approximate geographic locations etc.
Although it shows your account is used in some suspicious location, there is no way to remotely log out the Google session.
To get a better track on your Google Account visit the below url
https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
No 9 : Track The Web Apps That Have Access To Your Google Data
Sometimes we sign up browser extensions, mobile apps and Google scripts using our Google Account. Some of them have read and/or write permission to our Google data. You can get this long list by visiting the url
https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions
No 10 : Quick Solution To Your Google Apps Account Hacking
Android apps provide a larger room for the hacking of Google Apps accounts easily. If you ever feel that your Google apps account is hacked, you can make use of this secret link to reset your administrator password. During the reset process, you will be prompted to verify your domain name. You can accomplish this by creating CNAME record in your DNS.
https://admin.google.com/domain.com/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset
Here you have to replace the domain.com with the your own domain name.
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