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By Marziah Karch, About.com Guide to Google

Google Dashboard

Thursday November 5, 2009

Google introduced a new tool to let you more transparently see exactly which Google services you're using.  The Google Dashboard shows most Google services, including your Web history, Gmail, Blogger, Google Health, and Latitude. You can also see snippets of recent activity and nicknames.

Google is presenting this as a method of transparency they hope becomes an industry standard, but I can see this spawning another wave of complaints that Google knows too much.  At the same time it is very cool to see how many Gmail messages I've sent and where my last Web search took me.

Take a look at your Google Dashboard at: www.google.com/dashboard and then tell me what you think. Is it cool or creepy to see everything Google knows about you?



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