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Is Google working on an official GDrive for cloud storage?
What if Google decides to pull the pin on apps like these? What about my data!?
An official GDrive has been talked about for ages, but we may not have to wonder much longer. Several users of Picasa for Mac have noticed an interesting menu item: after selecting Move to Collection, Google Web Drive appears as an option. Now isn't that interesting?
Google Blogoscoped has done further digging and discovered that Google owns the domain GoogleWebDrive.com. On top of that, a quick NSlookup reveals that www10.google.com aliases webdrive-client.l.GOOGLE.COM.
The idea of Google providing a cloud storage solution certainly doesn't come out of left field. After all, they're already providing boat loads of free storage for us in one form or another - be it GMail, YouTube, Picasa Web Albums, Blogger, or Google Apps.
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Jash Sayani said 4:38PM on 1-19-2009
I hope they are!!! It would be the best and most reliable online storage service...
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Quikboy said 12:14AM on 1-20-2009
Not necessarily... There's no guarantees for that.
Look at Google Video for example...
Jash Sayani said 8:46AM on 1-20-2009
@Quikboy: Yeah, thats true. Even a company like AOL closes down XDrive and unknown companies like ADrive are there for years.....
Jon Doe. said 4:09PM on 1-20-2009
ehhh. Not really. We don't have any idea what kind of redundancy Google has or would have for this service. Google has already lost people's data in Gmail. Granted it wasn't a lot but it did happen. Don't automatically assume that Google has all their bases covered.
sitruc said 5:50PM on 1-19-2009
It may also be worth noting others have been offering free web storage. Even Microsoft is in the game now.
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Tyler Mills said 10:43PM on 1-19-2009
Google has had a "Google Web Drive" internally for years for their employees.
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Jon Doe. said 4:06PM on 1-20-2009
I hope this is tied to Android and the G1 like Gmail is. The idea that your apps and data are synced to your GDrive is teh sexy.
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