Google driving me Nuts - How do you combine 2 accounts?

[James77]

I know this must be driving a lot of other people mad as I see loads of people who now have 2 registered accounts at google plus due to their seemingly terrible ability to merge or connect accounts.

We have a work email address set up through google, then I have a personal Gmail address. In Google Plus now I have 2 profiles - even though I have not signed up to google plus with my work email, I cannot add this email to my Google + account set up on personal email as it just tells me to log into that account taking me to a page to set up a profile for that account.

Has anyone managed to solve this problem - it is happening to everyone in the company, driving us all nuts and our IT guys have no idea how to solve it.

Were trying to use G+ for the purposes of SEO & Marketing, but if they make it this cumbersome for people to use, then they are going to die a quick death - after a few weeks of use and noticing the huge number of dead accounts, only live accounts being SEO/Internet Marketing related, and huge number of duplicate accounts, I think their user figures are hugely suspect!

Rant over - anyone know how to merge accounts?

[jeffreytrull1]

As far as I know, there's no way to merge accounts. I tried figuring this out recently, but couldn't find a way to make it happen.

[James77]

Ummm - Its absolutely infuriating - I have to now constantly use 2 separate browsers, so I can be logged into one account for my emails (work email) and another for googles other tools.

The fact that I now have 2 G+ accounts (effectively automatically created) and I can do nothing about it is a huge turn off - If I wasn't effectively forced to use G+ because of my job, then their is no way I would use something which created conflicting accounts for me and I couldn't do anything about.

[Highland]

I have the same problem. I have a Gmail address and my own personal domain pointed to Google Apps. Linking the two would make my life easier but Google says they don't support it (and they ignore it). Google's great Achille's Heel is their near-complete lack of support for anything (except Adwords). I wish I could bring better news but at this point I'd think it was more likely to see Bing become the #1 search engine than to see Google offer account support for free accounts.