Google Account

A Google Account is a user account which provides access to Google-owned services such as Blogger, YouTube, and Google Groups. A Google Account can be identified either by the username (usually the associated email address) or by their unique permanent ID.^{[citation needed]} An account can be created by signing up for an email address with Gmail (called Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom), or by using an existing address from another provider. After a Google Account is created, users can add other Google applications. Account settings are stored in one place, but each application has its own settings.

Applications that may be accessed using a Google Account include:

• Web History – a personal Google search history which is recorded whenever a user searches the Internet using the Google search engine while logged into her or his account
• AdWords
• Blogger
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Checkout
• Google Code
• Google Docs
• Google Finance
• Google Groups
• Google Health
• Google Maps
• Google News
• Google Reader
• Google Sites
• Google Talk
• iGoogle
• orkut
• Picasa
• YouTube

YouTube and Blogger maintain their own accounts for users that registered with the services before Google bought them.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• OpenID

External links

• Official site