Prompt
Do I need OAuth for Google sign in?
Latest observation
Usually, yes — if you want to let users “Sign in with Google,” you generally use OAuth 2.0 (specifically Google’s OpenID Connect on top of OAuth).
In short
- Google sign-in for your app/site: use OAuth/OpenID Connect
- Just accessing a Google API on behalf of a user: also use OAuth 2.0
- Only verifying a Google user’s identity: use Google Sign-In / OpenID Connect
Why
OAuth is the standard way to:
- redirect the user to Google
- let them approve access
- return an authorization code / token to your app
- identify the user and/or access Google data safely
Common cases
- Web app / backend app: OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code flow
- SPA / mobile app: OAuth 2.0 with PKCE
- Backend service to backend service: service accounts, not user OAuth
If you want, I can tell you the exact flow to use for your app type (web, mobile, SPA, desktop).
Brands
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
Which AI systems does Obsurfable collect answers from?
OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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Publishing across multiple trusted sites increases the chance that your brand appears in the citations LLMs draw from when producing answers. Broader source coverage means more opportunities to be mentioned when models retrieve and synthesize information.
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