New Google products always cause a press commotion, but the prevailing reaction to the release of Google Dashboard on Thursday was an underwhelming: "Yeah, So?" Dashboard is promoted on the official ...

Let’s get this out of the way: What Google’s missing — and fair warning to Google-philes, I’m unbending on this — is the equivalent of an opt-out panic button. With services like YouTube, Picassa, ...

The Dashboard is not just read only; you can also manage the data and change settings with ease. In this regard alone, the Dashboard makes a brilliant all-in-one Google control panel, so to speak.

How much do you depend on Google? What is stored in your Google account? Whether you use just one or many of Google, Gmail, Picasa, Google Earth, YouTube or the many other Google products and services ...