How long has this standalone page been on the web?

@crichman:
Works for me

Nabeel

It didn't work for me at first, but I clicked the link from [googlesystem.blogspot.com] and it magically started working.

vermeulen

I get a 403 Forbidden.

crichman

To those that are getting 403s, make sure you're logged into your Google account. I was able to access it just fine, then to reproduce the issue I logged out and got a 403 myself.

booticon

forbidden for me

unruled

The cure for laziness! I liked it. Was able to delete 3 Contacts I never added (Gmail adds them for you because they have nothing better to do).

MCWHAMMER

i just let google manage my contacts, i've got the few i need on their, and it adds almost everyone you e-mail anyways...so i just let it accumulate the crap...the people who i care about or on my msn list instead

Zepth

If you're using Google Apps for Domains the address is

http:||mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/contacts/ui/ContactManager

Herb Caudill

What's up with Google keeping the email addresses of people I emailed only once? I went thru that list and it was like using the Wayback Machine to revisit the memories of drunken skanky one-nighters and psycho ex-girlfriends...

haggie

It still sits in the mail.google.com domain, so I can't get to it at work. Oh well.

toddkravos

Nice, but still can't manage duplicates.:(

plaas

Easier to remember: [tinyurl.com]

Tim Dub

Nice! I, for one, hate having to switch from email to contacts all the time. I've been creating a lot of career contacts lately and it's a pain to copy all of their contact information from their signature, paste it into a TurboNote, open up Contacts, and add it field-by-field. Being able to use your mail in one window and contacts in another is ideal.

RighteousDork

Too bad they didn't build in LDAP. This would have been really useful if they did. I hate having 3-4 collections of addresses all of which can read LDAP databases but none of which will act as one.

Oh well.

DaveTyranham

https is nescessary for those of us with "Browser connection: Always use https" enabled. Google doesn't seem to make the automatic redirection :|

WOFall

It's about time they did something like this.

tasselhoff76

I've been using the Gmail Contacts iGoogle widget for a while and it works great. I sounds like it is a lot easier to use that a direct link.

YaleKollenda

I love google's contacts manager, but seriously, where's the help with duplicates and merging email addresses belonging to the same person? Oh, and why doesn't the search return results besides names (can't search phone numbers, addresses, etc...) Please help me if I'm simply missing these functions.

SaulMedusa

Now I just needs another favicon, since I use one for mail, another for calendar and other one for docs.

genterara

You have to Login to GMail first before it works.

CaraNimrit/Maya

I think it should be noted, you need to be logged in through gmail, or other google service, in order to use the link. You will not be asked to login, through the link, hence you get a 403 Forbidden error.

VedetteHapkido

i don't really see a point. and you still can't sync with it.

VolettaBabalistic

In case anyone is wondering, the standalone contacts url for google apps (for your domain) accounts is the following: http://mail.google.com/a//contacts/ui/ContactManager

ConwayAugeas

Sweet. It even works with the google redesigned plugin!

WaldoMacrotainer

Kinda like the contacts 'app' in gmail, but a few features would be great:

- Sync contacts with outlook / thunderbird / et al
- sync contacts with facebook
- Merge contacts (so many dupes!)

tommertron

Frustrating, isn't it? I wonder why they aren't implementing such an important feature. If it was another company I'd suppose they were cooking up a 'premium' version they intended to charge for.

SurupaMokap

Forbidden 403 :(

vishr

@VolettaBabalistic:

Amen.

Keith Mundrick

Thanks, very handy for cleaning up your address book. Now wish there was a way to upload a vcard of all my contacts.

boardtc

@VolettaBabalistic:
Agreed. Until it's much more functional, I won't be using it.

DJRRJr.

@VolettaBabalistic: Hopefully this might be the first step in this direction. Very sad that in 21st century, there is no such service to keep one's contacts synced from/to anywhere. Or is it?

I would expect that even sync from/to central place and phone, another phone, palm, pc or even fridge would be commonplace today.

okolnost

There's an https version too : [mail.google.com] .

sandesh247

@Tim Dub: We're on the same page. I just made:

[tinyurl.com]

that's /gcontacts in case Lifehacker auto-hides the end of that URL.

straight_up

A note to everyone getting 403 Errors: you have to be logged in in order for the link to work. Hope this helps some of you.

Theborg3of5

@Theborg3of5: Whoops, my bad. In any case, has anyone else noticed the serious lack of the usual useful search box for contacts on this site?

Theborg3of5

I was getting 403 error as well-- until I signed into my Gmail account!

Cheer for the n00b!

NicholeTiffany

This is really great. Now if Picasa would just stop adding dead people to my contacts, I'll be in business.

That sounds weird doesn't it? Well I've scanned a bunch of pictures of family that has since passed on. When I name them, Picasa adds them into my contacts. While that's a great idea for most people, it's not working for me obviously. I just wish they'd allow you to name people and have an option to NOT add to contacts. *sigh*

magnoliasouth

You get the 403 error when you're not logged in to your gmail account.

BeatriceKarma