Web giant Google is planning a massive online storage facility to encompass all users’ files, it is reported. The plans were allegedly revealed accidentally after a blogger spotted notes in a slideshow presentation wrongly published on Google’s site.
The GDrive, previously the subject of chatroom rumour, would offer a mirror of users’ hard drives, Reuters said.
Google declined to comment on the reports but said the slide notes had now been deleted. In the notes, chief executive Eric Schmidt reportedly said Google’s aim was to “store 100%” of users’ information.
The notes said: “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including e-mails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc; and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc).”
I guess it would have to cost less than a standalone backup drive. Like, free?
It could be useful for some applications, if it does behave as a regular network drive. Right now there are few options for remote storage at an ISP, storage the actually behaves like a drive, and on which you can place data that is interactive, such as an Access database. FTP is not interactive, a web server is static unless the application is designed to run on the server itself, and webDAV is unsupported by ISP’s.
To me, there is question that we as humans are building God. Google is the all-knowing part of God. America’s empire building is the all-powerful part. The all-loving part,however, of God is still on the drawing table.
That makes it really handy for the Justice Department, having all those personal files available all in one place.
isn’t this just like the “google grid” described in the flash movie epic?
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
but otherwise i mean, you wouldn’t give any of your stuff to google because it would probably “mysteriously go missing”