Google Drive is Launched with 5 GB Free!

The rumours of Google launching a cloud storage service have been around for over 2 years (if not more). Google now finally has launched this new feature called Google Drive. The new cloud service is being rolled out for everyone with a Gmail account. Just visit the Google Drive landing page and check if it is ready for your account. Google Drive Features Every new user will be allowed 5 GB free. That is a pretty large size for anyone with normal storage needs. Amazingly you can move up to 25 GB for $2.50 per month. The new service will work on Windows PC, Mac. It also has an Android app with iPad and iPhone apps expected in the future. Files from Google Drive can be shared with others with just a link. This is a feature what was only released on Dropbox very recently. Google is also bringing in OCR to Google Drive. This means if we scan a letter as an image, it could search for a particular keyword even from the scanned copy. The technology though is not very accurate at this stage. Natural extension of Google Docs I do think that Google will bring in more features than Dropbox does as Google Drive seems like a natural extension of Google Docs. So some of the features like collaborative work on a single document by many and seeing the changes in real-time will surely add muscle to the new product. What remains to be seen if Google Drive is actually targeting Dropbox because I think they have their eyes trained more on Apple's iCloud and Microsoft's SkyDrive. What are your views? Do drop in your comments. Link: Google Drive -- This Post Google Drive is Launched with 5 GB Free! is Published on Devils Workshop .

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