Google Drive

Google Drive is here... yes really! Google admit on their blogpost that Google Drive is about as rumoured as the Loch Ness monster, but it is finally here! With 5GB free storage, and up to 16GB with subscriptions, Google Drive is everything it was rumoured to be. It is fully integrated into Google Docs and works cross platform on all your devices.

Until now Microsoft's SkyDrive, Dropbox and Box.net have had the home and business markets covered for cloud storage, with many other companies offering increasing amounts of storage at various costs. The integration with existing accounts make it easy to apply for, although it's not quite available for everyone just yet. Google Drive will work with GMail in a similar way to SkyDrive and Hotmail.

Here is Google's video, explaining more.



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Among other killer features Google Drive will also OCR your documents so you can find text hidden within a pdf, or even a scanned picture. Your pictures themselves will be subject to an image recognition process, so if you search for "Christmas tree" it will (hopefully) find pictures of your christmas tree from last year.

Privacy issues aside, this is pretty cool. Google are constantly finding new ways to maximise their product capabilities from their vast quantity of data already on Google search and Google images.

The Drive service also slots into Google+ which is no great surprise.

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