You can have a Reader account, a Voice account, an Analytics account, etc all associated with your non-gmail address. That “vanilla” google account will now have access to all (well, I think all) Google services.
What you do is create a NORMAL Google Account (described at the beginning) and associate it with your email address. Right now, you won’t find stuff like Reader, Google Voice, AdWords, Finance, Analytics, etc… but still there is some interesting stuff in there.īut what if you want to access ALL services through a single email address? Typically this is email, Docs, Calendar, and Contacts… but you can click the “add more services” link to expand that. So, let’s say you have a Google Apps domain that is and you created a user You will be able to log in with for all your Google Apps hosted services. You are essentially creating a branded Google Account world for the Google services your domain is hosting. When you open a Google Apps domain account. You get some, but not all of what vanilla Google accounts get. Google Apps accounts provide a subset of Google services hosted for your domain. So using a Gmail address always just works. Some of the confusion that leads to “you must have a address” to access Google services is because a Google Account comes “for free” when you open a Gmail account. You can tie ANY email address to a “Google Account.”Ĭheck out and notice that it asks you for your “current email address.” So let’s say I go to school at Big University and I have an email address I can use that email address while signing up and that will be my login name to access Google services. In truth, there’s only one kind of account: a Google Account.Ībstract the idea of a “Google Account” from being associated with Gmail or Google Apps. To the user, it may appear that there are three types of Google accounts: Gmail accounts, Google accounts, and Google Apps (for your domain) accounts.
Let’s call her/him “Helpful McGoogler.” Here’s what HM said. If you’ve taken the leap and hosted your domain email with Google Apps, no doubt you’ve noticed that you miss out on services that regular Gmail accounts get: like Google Reader, Voice, Wave, Analytics, and right now, Buzz.Īfter complaining about the disparities on a recent episode of This Week in Google, a helpful Googler unofficially got in touch to clarify and confirm the problem. Update, May 7th: The Official Google Enterprise Blog promises that more services will be coming this year for Google Apps users.
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