Understanding Google Accounts

This article is almost Google accounts:  what they are- too aren't, how to access them, too what the account-names await like.  

Blogger, Google too Google+ accounts

Once upon a fourth dimension (pre 2006), at that spot was a website on the meshwork called Blogger.   People created an work organisation human relationship on Blogger, too and thus used it to brand a weblog - which was owned past times their Blogger account.

Then Google (the companionship that made the search engine) purchased Blogger.   They wanted to integrate their products, thus Blogger users had to alter their master copy Blogger accounts to "Google accounts", which silent had a Blogger profile.  Google were pretty dainty almost this:   they kept back upwards old, unconverted Blogger accounts upwards til 2011, but eventually said that no to a greater extent than conversions were possible.

At the time, really few people understood the departure betwixt Google-the-company too Google-the-search-engine, thus most didn't accept whatever reckon of the ability too importance of these "Google accounts".   However every bit the other applications available through Gaoogle accounts grew (Gmail, Picasa-web-albums, Google-custom-maps, AdSense, AdWords, etc), this became clearer.

In mid/late 2011, Google introduced Google+, which is a social-networking too identity service.  Originally, G+ accounts required people to purpose their existent names, which or thus Bloggers didn't desire to do.   But this policy was gradually weakened:

• Since early on 2013 it has been possible to give a Google+ Page its ain loginID too password - effectively making it a stand-alone G+ account,
• In mid 2014 Google announced that real-names were no longer required.

Blogger / Google profiles tin strength out hold out converted into Google+ accounts.

Or they tin strength out hold out left every bit normal Google accounts   (which are sometimes called "Google Minus" or "G-" accounts).

Getting a Google account

To brand a novel Google account, you lot exactly accept to purpose the Create an Account link close the bottom of the account-selection listing on the login-page of whatever production that Google offers (Gmail, Blogger, AdSense, etc).

You too thus accept to render a a few details - banker's complaint though you lot accept to give a start refer too concluding name, these don't bespeak to hold out your existent names whatever more.

These days, past times default, novel accounts are Google+ accounts - but you lot tin strength out opt out of this during the sign-up procedure if you lot want.    If you lot practise this, you lot won't accept access to all Google's features (eg Google+ Photos) - but you lot volition accept everything you lot bespeak to purpose Blogger.

Account names await similar e-mail address

Google work organisation human relationship names ever await similar e-mail addresses, ie they are of the form:

willy.worm@yourMail.com

If the production that you lot sign upwards alongside is Gmail (which is where Google accounts started, I think), too thus this makes sense.

However it is possible to accept an work organisation human relationship refer that is merely a text-string that looks like an e-mail address.

For a long fourth dimension Google didn't fifty-fifty depository fiscal establishment jibe if at that spot was a valid e-mail work organisation human relationship alongside that address at the fourth dimension you lot signed upwards   This has changed now:  Google warn you lot that they volition ship an e-mail message to the work organisation human relationship that you lot give, to verify that you lot ain it, too that you lot won't accept sum purpose of the work organisation human relationship until it is verified.

However, fifty-fifty today, if a Google work organisation human relationship was created or thus fourth dimension ago, you lot cannot guarantee that the individual who owns a Google work organisation human relationship still owns - or indeed ever owned - the email-address alongside the same name.

This way at that spot are Google accounts called Joe.blogs@yahoo.com, too similar.   And at that spot are fifty-fifty Google accounts with a refer that is not, too never has been, a existent e-mail address.

Some of the confusion too problems:

• If the e-mail address isn't a gmail one, too thus changing the password of the e-mail doesn't alter the password of the Google account

• Some people don't sympathize that their Google work organisation human relationship refer is exactly a gear upwards of letters: they don't realise that they tin strength out alter the e-mail address attached to their work organisation human relationship without changing the underlying work organisation human relationship (Dashboard > Edit Profile, identity tab).

• Some people lost access to the e-mail address (eg because they larn out their job, or purpose a gratuitous service too didn't log on for xxx or threescore or however-many day).

• Some people never had access to the e-mail address, because they used a text-string that wasn't genuinely an address, too previously Google never checked if non-Gmail addresses genuinely worked.

In these cases, problems happened when that e-mail address was the only tool that the individual used to position their Google accounts.  If it's non real, or they can't access it whatever more, too thus Google can't assist when they forget their passwords,etc.  So at that spot are or thus blogs that tin strength out never hold out accessed ever again, because Google has no way of beingness certain who owns the Google-account that made them.

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