Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Google is apparently planning the GDrive...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> Evidently, they think that can store it all, which makes sense since 
> gmail accounts are pretty much flawless at almost 3 gigs apiece now.

Remember that they are not using 3GB per user.  They are giving me 2701 
MB, but I'm using 557 MB, and I'll bet that few people are using that much 
(I know that some of you use more, but you are not the norm!)  They also 
seem to be using linking strategies so that my 557 MB probably doesn't 
really use up that much space.


> http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060307/google_storage.html
>
> I whipped through the slide presentation they refer to in the article, 
> and I have to say that this is exactly what I suspected they would 
> eventually want to do.  Now, of course, whether *you* want to trust them 
> with your data is another question.  I'm fairly enthusiastic about it in 
> the abstract, but the devil is in the details.

I'm impressed with the idea, but I wonder why they don't want to do web 
hosting.  Any idea?  Web hosting seems like a logical service for Google 
to offer.  Maybe the problem is that they don't want to control how web 
pages are formatted, so the can't put ads on the web pages.

Mike

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