How to See What Google Knows About You
Friday, June 18th, 2010While writing some code to communicate with the Google Servers (more on that next week), I came across a very cool page on their site which lists every service you have signed up for with Google and all of the data they have in each service. If I’m not explaining it that well, go and see for yourself and you’ll see what I mean. It’s easy.
- Go to your Google Accounts homepage (this link will open in a new browser window so you can follow along).
- Right there under Personal Settings is a link called “View data stored with this account”. Click it.
- You’ll likely be asked for your Google password again.
- You’ll see a list of all Google services you have ever signed up for. I personally have 24, which is astonishing, and it includes several I don’t even remember signing up for (but I’m sure I did).
- From this screen, you can edit your settings and see your data for each application.

