Thread: What is Google Takeout?

I've heard Google Takeout mentioned on some forums but don't understand what it is. Can someone please explain to me the concept of Google Takeout and how to use it?

In simple words, It is similar to data stored on cloud

Everything you could ever possibly want t know about Google Takeout

source: Google Takeout from the Data Liberation Front ? Good to Know ? Google

We believe you should be able to export your information from Google products when you want to. We have a special engineering team called the Data Liberation Front which has one goal – to make it easier for our users to move their data in and out of Google products. That’s useful if you want to store a copy of your information on your own computer, or if you want to leave Google for another product and take your information to the new service. We’ve launched a data liberation tool called Google Takeout which makes it easier to move data in and out of Google products.

Those statements are too complex for a newbie to understand

Google Takeout allows you to download a copy of your data stored within Google products.
You can sign in with your own gmail account and find it.

Originally Posted by shek

Those statements are too complex for a newbie to understand

OK, good point. So basically, Google Take out lets you download or 'take' your information (from google) with you.

I have no information about it.first time i heared about it here.

I don't have any idea buddy.

Google Takeout is a Google service that is used to download data from a number of Google services to a designated PC storage location. As of September 2011, Google Takeout allows users to retrieve data from the following:

• +1s
• Buzz
• Contacts and Circles
• Picasa Web Albums
• All Google Profiles including Gmail
• Voice

Google Takeout is the latest product developed by Google’s internal engineering team, also known by the fancy name “Data Liberation Front” (sounds more like an independent authority but it isn’t).