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Google is all about the consolidation of data, their whole mantra is behind it. They have released oodles and oodles of services that I utilize (yes I’m a google whore – there I said it), but only minimal correlation between the tools other than a common login. Many of their tools generate reports or data that could be transformed into reports. Some of their services it’s almost brain-dead and they haven’t integrated the services. Let’s go through the services and how I would design “Google Reports”.<\/p>\n
The most obvious Google “products” I would lump together would be Google Analytics<\/a>, Google Webmaster Tools<\/a>, Google Adsense<\/a>, and Google Adwords<\/a>. All four of these products are usually used together – so why can’t we get reporting for all three on one page? All of these products can give a webmaster an overview of where his site(s) is going and what he can work on. There is absolutely no reason to go through four different interfaces to get this information. Yes, I can set up email reports from some of them – but a singular report and page to view them at a quick glance would be great. If I click on something to drill down on it could then take me to the specific related products page. While we are the subject of Google Analytics – a listing of recent page views ala the way StatCounter does it would be great. To be honest that’s the only reason I still use my StatCounter account.<\/p>\n Those were the four products that prompted me to think about this in total from the beginning. Now let’s move on to the other products, video for example. Google Video<\/a> and Youtube<\/a> both fit different niches in the google video structure. Youtube allows you to upload a video more quickly but has time and size limits, Google Video, however, allows downloads and unlimited sized and no time limits when you use their external (non-browser-based) uploader. Now Google Video’s reporting very frequently fails to work – losing view and download counts so this needs to be addressed. But a report that would include subscribers, views, and downloads would be fantastic.<\/p>\n Feedburner<\/a> should be tied into analytics also for the amount of information it gives you and stats, while I’m on a mini-rant here when are we going to be able to inject AdSense into our Feedburner items?<\/p>\n \n Now let’s break into the quickies:<\/p>\n Google Base – ok I still don’t understand this product so I have no idea.<\/p>\n Blogger<\/a> and Page Creator would tie in easily with Analytics – so there is no reason not to make this automated.<\/p>\n Browser Sync<\/a> – The number of synchronizations and all machines that you have synchronized against.<\/p>\n Calender<\/a> – Ok trickier but the number of appointments from a given day\/month\/week<\/p>\n Docs<\/a> – Number of edits, number of documents, space they take up, and how many of your collaboration documents have had edits.<\/p>\n Gmail<\/a> – Number of emails received, sent, spam caught, most frequent contacts, amount of free disk space.<\/p>\n Groups<\/a> – could tie into Analytics if you the group owner but beyond that – number of members and messages – how many new messages if you are just a reader.<\/p>\n Igoogle<\/a> – um no clues<\/p>\n Reader – number of stories read<\/p>\n