Google Unleashes New Data Portability Initiative: Google Takeout. By Steve Repetti, on June 28th, 2011 Google today unveiled a new service that provides advanced Data Portability across its diverse platform.
Google Takeout ( makes it easy to extract your data from a variety of Google Services including: Buzz, Contact and Circles, Picasa Web Albums, and Profile. The information is provided in a variety of formats, including vCard and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and can be quickly downloaded onto your local computer. Export Or Download Data Stored On Your Google Account As A Zip File: Google Takeout.
The one thing I really admire about Google as a company is it’s open nature towards the data of it’s users.
Google has always said that the biggest asset of their business is peopleand they always want users to control the data that’s stored in their Google account. You might know that Google already provides an online dashboard feature which allows users to manage or export data out of their Google account. You can export bookmarks, contacts, delete web search history and manage all the information right from your Google dashboard.
Google Takeout. The Data Liberation Front.