As reported on Tuesday newspaper Wall Street Journal, with reference to anonymous sources, Google plans to offer an online data storage and backup, giving users accessible via the web storage space, where you can move information from their home computers and to provide access to others.
The product will be an "umbrella" for service data storage services, which Google already offers in some of its web, such as e-mail and photo-sharing service. No date is not known, and there is no guarantee that in the course of further development of Google will not abandon the project.
U-rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft already have a similar service, respectively SkyDrive and Briefcase. In addition, there are many smaller players, such as Box.net or Mozy, which offer a broad range of services back up. Google, however, believes that it can get a competitive advantage by developing a more intuitive user interface. The only obstacle, which bypass Google fail, it is slow data transfer with many types of broadband connections, especially DSL. If a person works with large video files, then transfer them Google, as with any other online service data storage can take hours or even all day.
Communication on the project, which, according to Wall Street Journal, was named interior My Stuff, came three months after the start of Google offers fee-for-service data storage for its web. For example, users Picasa Web Albums and Gmail for $ 20 a year may receive a 6 GB of disk space, and for $ 500 a year-250 gigabytes. Free Picasa offers 1 GB, and Gmail-2.8 gigabytes.
Shortly before Google advertisement Microsoft has opened all these services online data storage SkyDrive service, which offers 500 megabytes of free disk space. And about the same time Apple upgraded its service. Mac by adding 10 gigabytes for $ 100 a year.
It is not clear how the new Google service would compete on price and functionality with the rest. However, a growing number of online disk space proposals indicates that suppliers see this commercial potential. In the case of Google knowledge that is on the hard drive, can expand opportunities for targeted advertising.
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