Getting a second Google account?

Factual Questions
1

I want a second Google account. It keeps saying no for all my email addresses. Can it be done legally which is what I want?
Strictly on the up & up.

What do I need to do? :confused:

2

Keep trying. I have about a dozen Yahoo! email accounts and almost as many Gmail accounts.

3

What Is it telling you when it says no? Is it just that the account names you’re trying are taken already?

4

I have a bunch of Google accounts. I don’t know why you have a problem unless you are providing them with specific information about your computer. Even then I believe they understand multiple accounts are needed.
PS. They even accept disposable email accounts that you never use after the first verification.

If the only problem is that the name is taken, use another name or let them suggest one. That seems to be the real problem here. Add some numbers or something to make yours unique.

5

I think it’s not clear to any of us what that actually means. What keeps saying no? That’s what it says: “NO”? What email addresses? That description is just too vague to diagnose, sorry.

But as for “is it legal?”, yes Google allows you have multiple accounts. They now even support “multiple sign-in”, so that you can be logged into more than one Google account at once:

6

I’ve got several, never had a problem.

7

I had to make another Gmail account before I could make an Google account. I could not have another account on the Same Gmail address.

Do that first and then it works fine.

Thanks for the help.

:smack::dubious::rolleyes:

8

Oh… well, yeah.

That’s not just your gmail address; it’s your Google username. No more than one account anywhere can have the same username. You could create a second account right here, but it would have to some username other than GusNSpot, right? Same thing. There aren’t actually separate “gmail accounts”; your gmail accounts are Google accounts, from which you can access any of Google’s services.

9

See? I learned something. :smack: You forget & am old so I did not start with puters until late 96 and then the first years were typical old people stuff. Ten year old kids are way ahead of me today but I can change a flat faster…

But I am gaining on puter knowledge… :smiley:

10

Google requires you to make multiple accounts to administer each of your domain names (unless they’ve streamlined the process recently).

11

GusNSpot, since you’re new to this, I should warn you that you can only be logged into one google account at a time, per browser session. So, if you’re logged in as GusNSpot@gmail.com and you log in to your new account FluffyKitty96@gmail.com, everything else in that browser will change to the FluffyKitty account. You can’t have two windows or tabs open, each with a different inbox (or other Google functions) showing. If you want to have both inboxes open, you need to use a different browser - e.g. one in Internet Explorer, one in Firefox.

12

Or you can have one of the Google accounts forward its mail to the other one. I have 2 gmail accounts but only ever check one, the other being forwarded on so I don’t miss anything.

13

I haven’t tried it yet, but Gmail just introduced email delegation, which allows you to access two Gmail accounts at once.

14

And, as I mentioned above, they now allow you to sign in to more than one account. Not all Google products can do it, so for some of them you still do have to log in to the new account. But Gmail is one of them that does work; the full list is here:

The multiple sign-in setup page is here, just log in to one of your accounts and enable it:

But I’d recommend thecking that “read more” link first, because there are some complications that might affect you.

15

All good stuff to know…

16

I have two Google accounts, and my employer uses Google Apps for our e-mail. The work e-mail uses our school district’s domain, but my two personal accounts are ‘@gmail.com’

I can be logged into the work one, and one personal one simultaneously, but not the two personal ones. Because the Google App has considerably less storage, and is close to 60% of capacity now, the second personal mail is POP’d with the work one so I have a backup of everything there and don’t worry about deleting anything I might need to get to later. That same amount of stuff that’s 60% in the Google App is less than 5% in the personal one.

17

That cornfused me just reading it. :confused::confused::confused: