Google Drive to offer free storage in the cloud
Found on BBC News on Wednesday, 25 April 2012
The service will allow users to upload and access videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and other documents.
"It will also create another stream of more focused and potential ad revenue for Google around the content of personal files on Google Drive.
Users will be able search by keyword and filter by file type, owner or activity. Drive will also recognise text in scanned documents using optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
"If you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip to Drive, the next time you search for Grand Canyon, photos of it will pop up," said Mr Pichai.
People keep on feeding Google, Facebook et al with their personal data of which quite a part is confidental and later complain that this data gets abused and pops up in places where it should not, thanks to data leaks. However, knowing that too many people hand over their passwords for a Klondike bar, the drive will probably be a success.