Applications
After a Google Account is created, users can add other Google applications. Account settings are stored in one place, but many applications may store their own settings. Applications that may be accessed using a Google Account include:
- Web History
- AdWords
- Blogger
- Gmail
- Google+
- 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. However, effective April 2011 YouTube users are now required to link to a separate Google Account if they wish to continue to log into that service.
Users with a Google account can create a publicly accessible Google profile, which they can use to control how they are presented on Google products to other Google users. A Google profile can be linked to a user's profiles on various social-networking and image-hosting sites, as well as user blogs.
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