Introducing Google Drive
April 25, 2012
Google has introduced Google Drive — a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.
With Google Drive, you can:
- Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
- Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). You can install Drive on your Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet.
- Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.
You can get started with 5GB of storage for free. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month.
Get started with Drive today at drive.google.com/start.
Comments (8)
by John Doe
Google is to privacy as dog is to a plate of tasty sausages
just watch Google gobble up all of your tasty sausages of privacy
by Dr. Louis Taylor
I wonder if the naysayers are looking a gift horse in the mouth.
by warpwiz
And leaving behind the spectre of big brother/Google pawing through your data, mining it and selling the results to marketeers…
What makes this a big deal? I’m no fan of the Borg on the other side of the galaxy, but I got 20 gigs free with a Micro$oft SkyDrive.
by Chrispium
Oh look, Google wants you to pay a subscription fee so they can spy on you…
by Gor
Like anything else it’s at the users risk ?
I think I might just keep a backup offline.
by Daniel
So what kind of privacy does Google guarantee for files kept in their cloud?
Or are they working with a backdoor to government snoops?
by Jack
None
by Jack
Be careful with this. Googles terms of use give them the rights to anything that you upload forever. Yes you retain the copyright but they can do whatever they want with you stuff and there is nothing you can do to stop them.