9 important URLs that all Google users need to know about

Here are 10 URLs that will give you an insight and a degree of extra control over what Google knows about your online activity.

1. If your Google Apps Account ever gets hacked by setting a DNS CNAME and using this secret link you can reset your admin password.

https://admin.google.com/domain.com/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset [*] Replace domain.com in the above URL with your own web domain name.

2. Google creates a profile of you based on your browsing activity among other things. Social signals such as your age, gender and interests and then use this data to serve you more relevant ads. Use this URL to know how Google sees you on the web.

https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

3. Google lets you export “takeout” all your data out of the Google data universe. You can download your photos, contacts, Gmail messages and even your YouTube videos.

https://www.google.com/takeout

4. You can raise a DMCA complaint with Google against a site to get stolen content removed. This wizard can also be used to remove websites from Google search results that are scraping your content.

https://support.google.com/legal

5. Your mobile device may be leaking your recent location data back to Google servers. Find out how much they know about where you have been via..

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory

6. Find your search history currently stored at Google by visiting..

https://history.google.com

7. Find the history of logins to your google account to help find out if you have been hacked,  You also get to know the I.P. Address and their approximate geographic location.

https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity

8. Terminate access of apps / APIs that you once granted access to your Google data by checking out who can currently access your information at

https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions

9. Want a Google Account without having to use Gmail?, simply start from

https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail