Topic: Google to offer online storage?

[Clive]

March 7, 2006
Quentin Reade

Google maybe about to offer online storage to web users with a system that creates a mirror image of data stored on personal hard drives.

Rumours of the new service, called GDrive, emerged after a blogger found notes about the project in a slide presentation published on Google's site last Thursday.

The notes read: "With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)."

Google has since taken down the original PowerPoint presentation and replaced it with an Adobe Acrobat file that doesn't include the speaker notes.

A Google spokeswoman told Web User the notes were not intended for publication and said she couldn't release any more information.

"We are constantly working on new ways to enhance our products and services for users, but have nothing to announce at this time," she said.

[Simon]

Would you trust Google with your hard drive data?  :ooo:

[sam]

maybe, maybe not... still it is an intriguing concept.