Google Accounts Madness

Too many Services - Confused about Google

[Harry]

People say that Google moves fast and adds products left and right. They sure are and one effect which Google doesn't seem to care about is the mess they are putting their clients through.

Here's an example. A long time ago, I set up my first Google account for Adwords to test sales on one of my sites. At the time, it was a hobby site.

Later, for the real company, I had to set a new account for Adwords.

Later, Google introduced Gmail. I've got my gmail, but have not time and no inclination to use it. Too many emails already.

Then, there was Froogle. Later, I tried to consolidate this account with Google News and it seems like it worked.

And have I mentioned Adsense yet?

In all of this, there are a bunch of email adresses who are only in use because I can't change them in my Goggle profiles. The procedure is too much work. So I have about six different log ins for a bunch of Google services.

I remember testing Google Base just before Christmas, but because GG removes older entry after 31 days, I can't figure out which account I used. The inactive tab doesn't work (anf Google seems to not work properly with my personal firewall on).

Right now, I'm an expericenced Web user, and I can't make sense of all these accounts and services and when I email Goggle to ask them to please consolidate everything into one account, they tell me it's not yet possible. I got in this mess because I was adopting new GG services as they came out, never thinking one day I would need to consolidate, or grow my hobby into part of my business and so on.

You know, as a customer, I'd rather Google spend time making my experience smoother, rather than come up with another service for me to use and get hooked on.

Companies like Microsoft and Yahoo make it easy for you. Everything is linked with one account for all services, whether through email or the passport thing.

People worry about Google having too much information, yet, if Goggle is as disorganized as my accounts are, there's nothing to fear.

[Vadim]

Get RoboForm. It is free for up to 10 accounts. I use it to handle all my Google accounts (four I belieave).

There is so called Parkinson's law that in effect says that the perfect order is only in a cemetery. More exactly too much order means too much beraucracy and it the sign of tne organization decline.

Besides the webmasters probably are not the highest priorities for Google.

Vadim.

[moltar]

Funny that you mention that. I am in the same boat. Too many accounts. And Google tried to consolidate my accounts, and look what happened.

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