Google is once again riding to your rescue by helping you clean up your contacts.

It happens to everyone at some point.  That unfortunate muddling of your contacts where you end up getting multiple entries, and then you have to go through trying to merge them and clean it all up.  Well, Google is now going to help you with this by allowing you to do it automatically.

You simply need to log in to your Gmail account, click on “Contacts”, and then click the button that says “Find Duplicates”.

You will then be presented with a list of all the contacts there is more than one entry before and the number of times they appear in your Contacts to the side. By default all of them are checked off for merging, but if there is someone you don’t want to merge you simply uncheck the box. Once you click the box it all happens pretty quickly, and viola, no more duplicates in your contacts!

Seeing as I sync my contacts with my iPod Touch and my BlackBerry, this is just what I needed!