Questions about Google on a broad level and which concerns one or more of the following web apps: Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and Google Voice
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Is there a free alternative to Google that improves privacy handling?
Google tracks searches and also sends search data to visited sites in the HTTP referrer headers, and this information can be tied together to allow someone to look at what you have been searching over ...
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Is it possible to add a creative commons embed to a Google Doc?
I've written some basic training manuals using Google docs, and would like to release them under a creative commons license. I plan to use the Google drive "Publish" feature to release it to the web, ...
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How to migrate all my Google data to another acount?
I'm using Gmail, Google Reader, calendar, Picasaweb and other services.
I've decide to change my Google ID. And I am moving Gmail data first (via POP3), but it is a very hard job. I'm afraid to move ...
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Is there a way to create a doc directly inside a collection?
For the life of me, I wasn't able to figure out how to create a doc inside a Collection.
When I click the Create button, the document is always created at the root level, and I have to find the ...
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Are Google Shortened URLs (goo.gl) Publicized, Sequential, or Secret?
Google has a shortening service at http://goo.gl/ which let's you convert a long URL to a short one. It says the following about the URLs it generates:
All goo.gl URLs and click analytics are ...
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How can I search Google for domains rather than pages?
Say I want to search for job sites in Alberta, Canada. One way to proceed is to do the usual Google search for them and then somehow loop through the results for the domains that seem to correspond to ...
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Bing - Is there a NCR site for it?
Just like Google having an NCR (No Country Redirect) URL, does Bing have one?
Basically, I am looking for a site URL which will take me to the US - English site?
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Is there a way of disabling Google's password recovery feature?
I have a YouTube channel and it's running under a different Google account to my normal one. I have a secure password with it and alternate e-mail address set up but I thought I'd see how secure the ...
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Does Google Docs Viewer only open documents (PDFs, .DOCs) that are upto a particular file size?
I noticed that Google Docs Viewer could not open (the progress bar halts) some of my .DOC files that were over 12 MB while some documents which were in about 5MB opened fine. Is there a file size ...
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How can I use Goo.gl as my URL shortener in Twitter for iPhone (Tweetie)?
I've gone to Settings - > Services -> URL Shortening -> Custom. What do I enter as the "URL shortening endpoint"?
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How do I consolidate my Google logins?
Google has the ability to add email addresses to your account, but if you've already made a different Google login with an email address, you can't add it to your account any more. Is there any way ...
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How to sync/backup “my documents” to Google Drive
Google Drive (at $2.49 for 25gb) seems like a great option for cloud storage. But I'm looking for a program to backup/mirror/sync my documents folder to Google Drive.
I've been looking for ...
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How to search this on Google?
It's a little meta...
.. But how do I "properly" search for something like Visual C++ Executable Stack on Google?
(See below for an illustration of the problem.)
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On Google search, is there a way to disable autocomplete but keep Instant?
Google Instant has gotten to a level of speed that makes it extremely usable. Now that I like it, I'd like to turn off autocomplete, which seems to get in the way of the Instant results, more than ...
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Change age of Google Account
I've looked on the internet and it says you can change the age of your Google account if you have a credit card. I entered my DOB incorrectly, it says I'm a year younger than I am.
However I can' find ...
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How do I reload/refresh the contacts birthday's calendar in Google Calendar?
I recently removed a number of contacts from Gmail but their birthday's still show up in my contacts birthday's calendar I subscribe to.
I unsubscribed/resubscribed to the calendar but the birthdays ...
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Graphing Google results for various phrases
What is the easiest way to make graphs like these?
Is there an app for it?
http://xkcd.com/715/
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Choose which calendar event goes into using Google Calendar Quick Add
Is there any way to specify which calendar the event should be put in when adding an event using Quick Add in Google Calendar.
The help article on the topic gives all sorts of advanced options, but I ...
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How easy is it to migrate all your 'Google Account' based services to the 'Google Apps For Your Domain' trial
Just received the following email:
I have services such as Reader and Picasa using regular Google Accounts.
Is there an easy way to import them in one step?
Do I have to export from every service ...
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Use Google as an OpenID without logging into the rest of it?
Every time I login to Google as my OpenID I stay signed-in. This can get annoying as I feel safer searching Google without being logged-in, even if my dynamic IP is logged.
Obviously I can just ...
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2-factor authenticated Google account and Trello on iPhone?
I got an application-specific password, but I couldn't log in with it from Trello. Is there a way to not have to log into Trello every time I use the app?
I wouldn't mind making a Trello-specific ...
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Backup archive of Google Groups messages?
Is there a way to download all the messages from a Google Group? I've tried searching for a good solution, but it seems the only way is to actually download the individual .html files for each thread ...
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Personalising Gmail canned responses
There is a great tool called 'canned response' at Gmail but how can I make it produce responses that are customised?
Sample template I want to create:
Dear %FIRSTNAME%,
Thank you ...
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Does Google Authenticator work with personal accounts?
Is it possible to set up Google Authenticator for my personal accounts or is it only available for Google Apps accounts?
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Showing nearest franchise location with Google Map
Can I share a link with Google Maps, that will request user for his location & show nearest franchise location of X company?
Example: User click link-> Location Request & Provided -> Show ...
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How to download everything I've liked on Google Buzz? [closed]
Google is going to shut down Buzz so far. I am very sorry about this and would like to download all I've posted, reshared and liked. As about my posts - there is Google Takeout. But it seems it ...
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How to open my Google account and my Google Apps account at the same time?
I have a "normal" Google account I use privately and I have a company account on Google Apps. Since yesterday, it was possible to open both, side by side in two tabs of my browser. When I try this ...
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Need to change email address but want to keep connected YouTube, Google+ and miscellaneous accounts currently associated
I currently have a Gmail account that is associated with many other Google products such as Google+ and YouTube. My email address currently contains my last name and as I am not getting married I want ...
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How to highlight code in Blogger?
I am using Google Blogger (www.thecloudavenue.com) and would like to highlight the code. I tried a couple of ways, but not satisfied with the results. Can anyone share how they have done it?
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Google Sets and alternatives?
Where did Google Sets go? I can't find it.
Is it gone? Are there alternatives?
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How to get Google to convert (for example) bytes to gigabytes
I know I have done it in the past accidentally. Maybe this was a feature that has since been turned off?
If someone knows, I would appreciate the tip. Some documentation of the exact syntax would be ...
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How do I change my primary Gmail email address on Google Accounts
How do I change my primary email address on Google accounts? (My current primary email is a Gmail address which seems to be the problem.)
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Anonymize a Google Search URL
If I search Google Images for mountains of madness lovecraft, I get something like this URL:
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I have 3 Gmail accounts and I want only one of them to be associated with my Google+
I have 3 Gmail accounts. I have created a rule in Gmail settings to link all these three to the primary one, meaning I can change my "from" field to be any one of the three and I get all mails from ...
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How to exclude a domain from Google search?
I would like to do a search query and filter out all results from www.foo.com. How do I do that?
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How to publish your thesis on Google Books?
While searching for a certain thesis, I have often found that some of those thesis also show up on Google Books. I would like to know, is there a provision where I could publish my thesis online on ...
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How do we set up notifications for documents shared to us in Google Docs?
My friend has shared a file with me on Google Docs and I would like to be notified whenever changes are made to the file (pretty reasonable request I'd say):
You can set notifications to find out ...
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Gmail/Google search: change color of top bar back to white from new black [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change black Google bar back to white?
Some time ago, Google changed the color of the top bar ("Web Images Videos Maps News Shopping Gmail more") to black. How ...
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What are the advantages of Chrome Web Store?
Is Chrome Web Store going to be just another web directory managed by Google for their own purposes? What would be the benefit to a regular user of web applications if and if not using the Chrome ...
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Let users only change their own data in Google Docs
I have a spreadsheet in Google Docs. Users can change everything and anything in the spreadsheet.
Now, I want them to be able to change empty fields or their own fields only.
Is this possible? If ...
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Is there a way to switch accounts in Google analytics?
I have several Google accounts. In products like Gmail or Calendar I see my address on the top right corner and when I click on it I can switch to other accounts I'm logged in with. But in Google ...
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Prevent receiving all mail: *@mydomain.com in Google Apps, being Super Administrator
I'm a Super Administrator for a domain associated with Google Apps. For some reason, I'm receiving all mail that is being sent to this domain.
Here's what it says in the Account Settings of my Super ...
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How to un-merge Google Apps and Gmail Account?
I have Google Apps account and was login into it using mail.google.com/a/my_domain_name and I was using my person Gmail by going to mail.google.com.
Now, I got some email from Google, and when I go ...
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How to synchronize Basecamp and Google Docs automatically?
Is there a way to synchronize Basecamp attachments with Google Docs? Are there any products on market doing this?
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How much of the internet is indexed by Google? [closed]
I heard some friends talking about Google's indexing percentage. They were saying that Google estimates the size of the whole internet as 5 million terabytes, and Google only indexes 0.04% of it.
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Is it possible to get more than three suggested routes in Google Maps?
Can one get more than 3 suggested routes via Google Maps?
If so, how?
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Can I send support questions to Google via email?
I've got an issue with a Google app that is nonstandard, so I'd like to write a detailed explanation to the Google support team instead of using the standard forms. Which address do I have to send my ...
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Link two Google Accounts
I have two Google Accounts.
1) me@gmail.com
2) me@mycompany.com
me@mycompany.com is not a GMail and is not a Google Apps for my domain account. The email me@mycompany.com hosted somewhere outside of ...
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Changing Gmail account belonging to my Google+ account
I've had the same Gmail account now for 5+ years. I have a Google+ account associated with that Gmail account. I want to change my email address, so I created a new Gmail account. How do I associate ...
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Multiple admins for a Google+ brand page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I grant permission to another user for my Google+ product / brand page?
Is there any way for a Google+ brand page to have more than one admin? I'm sure I can ...
