Visit Your Google Dashboard Today

Written on January 25, 2010  |  by RP Mickler  |  Leave a Comment  | 

With Google Dashboard, Google anticipated something you’d need without you even consciously realizing that you’d need it. Kind of like Google’s Web History, except with a more holistic slant. (I mean: who knew how interested that I’d be in what I’ve searched on in Google, like, months ago? Genius!)

What if you could see all of the Google services that you’ve subscribed to, their pertinent stats, and the ability for you to quickly access those services through one convenient interface? Instead of bouncing around, you can see a categorical review of your history with Google: from mail, to chats, to searches, to even a historical record of the purchases you’ve made through Google Checkout?

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Well, then Google Dashboard is for you.

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See? And you thought you wouldn’t need this.

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A couple of things that I like about the Dashboard product:

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1. Dashboard isn’t widely publicized. You won’t see it as an available option from the Google Options page. Inasmuch, I feel like I’m using something that’s in early development with Google, and that’s kind of exciting.

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2. Dashboard summarizes everything. It’s a snapshot into all of the services that I’ve used with Google as well as a portal to those services. It’s a quick overview of my voice mail (with Google Voice), email (with Gmail), data analytics, cart and checkout activity, Calendar, Contacts, Sync… I mean, the world of Google at my fingertips.

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3. Dashboard is a new place to start. This could almost be my Home Page. In fact, that’s not a bad idea. What if you could quickly access everything relevant in one view?

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4. Edit settings and check out the privacy policy. Dashboard also gives you the ability to look at your private settings under each Google service, and investigate the privacy policy for each service.

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Google Dashboard is a power user kind of tool that allows you to manage nearly the whole of your Googley-relationship all from one interface. If anything, it’s worth making it one of your stored pages in Chrome. Hopefully Google will invest some additional time and resources into it to make it even more useful. Definitely worth checking out.

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R