Google Tests Multiple Account Login

tekgoblin noted joyous rumors for anyone forced to use multiple Google accounts "Wouldn't it be great if you could log into all of your Google accounts at the same time if you have multiple? Well it seems that Google may be implementing a way to do this in the near future. Right now it can be done with scripts such as a Greasemonkey script, but that isn't as easy as Google doing it for us. The people over at Google Operating System have had users submit a screenshot of what looks like a beta test for multiple account login. It appears that it will be available for Calendar, Code, Docs, Gmail, Reader, and Sites for the test but surely it will be across all Google apps when it's released."

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Get all pwned at the same time too?

[TheLink]

Get all accounts pwned at the same time too?

Not for me

[Monkeedude1212]

Wouldn't it be great if you could log into all of your Google accounts at the same time if you have multiple?

Who has multiple google accounts, and for what?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I have lots of email addresses, but I be sure to spread them around. Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo are the ones I check frequently.

I wouldn't want to put all my eggs in one basket, you know?

Re:Not for me

[telekon]

Who has multiple google accounts, and for what?

I have multiple google accounts, one for personal, one for business, one for activism. Even just pertaining to Gmail, it's useful, because let's face it, the Gmail filter/label system is useful, but it's no procmail. This would be great, especially since I've just out of habit tended to use one account more than the others, so most of my contacts have that listed as my google talk address, plus that's the account Google Voice is tied to, so when I log out to check my Gmail or Docs in another account, I'm logged out of Voice, Docs, Talk, etc.... So, yeah, multiple log-ins would be SWEET!

Re:Not for me

[TechnoFrood]

I have a personal account and a work account.

The work account is mostly used for Analytics, but I do occasionally use docs (mostly for collaborative work on a spreadsheet).

I prefer to keep the two separate, one reason being I don't want coworkers/bosses having my home email address(es).

Only sensible

[joh]

Being able to link all your accounts to one person (you) is fully in the interest of Google.

Re:Only sensible

[Pollardito]

They already can do a good job of that by monitoring cookies (i.e. they see the cookie from the previous account you were logged into when you login as the other), and they could probably get close with only IP and User-Agent. Ok, so that wouldn't differentiate two people sharing the same PC but with separate accounts (like husband/wife or siblings), but it would narrow it down that far.

Incognito mode works for me...

[Kernel Corndog]

I have two accounts: 1 personal, 1 business -- I just launch an incognito mode window in Chromium and everything has worked fine so far. Definitely a reason I love the Chromium-style ease of incognito mode windows versus Firefox's either-or style.

Re:FIRST

[dancingmilk]

News flash: If you don't want it, you don't have to use it.

Re:Finally!!!

[netsharc]

Several alternatives are there:
1. Use different browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari
2. Use different Firefox profiles ( http://lifehacker.com/231646/geek-to-live--manage-multiple-firefox-profiles )
3. Use the "private browsing" mode in browsers that provide them

Re:FIRST

[Dishevel]

He did not see anything like that. He was just typing random shit into his browser window then clicking on buttons.

Many people on the internet do this all the time. Sites like /., reddit, all the chans, and youtube make much more sense once you realize this.