Rumours about Google Drive

Recently, the rumors about Google Drive (dubbed GDrive) started gaining some more momentum and coverage. This recent news coverage stemmed from the release of Google Picasa for Mac, which had a mysterious “Google Web Drive” listed in one of their option menu.

Image taken from: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6875608&postcount=85

Adding further to the rumors, the “Google Operating System” Blog reported that Cédric Vergé, had  noticed a change in one of the CSS files for Google Apps, which has a class named “webdrive” linking to a web drive icon.

Image taken from: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-signs-of-google-webdrive.html

This news, pointing towards the direction of Google having a web drive is a big welcome for most people / everyone. A web drive by Google is definitely on the wish list of many people. The only question now is whether the web drive will be free for use or become a paid service. For now, Google already offer paid space upgrades for use with Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and other services, with 10Gb going for $20 USD a year.

Whether the GDrive will integrate into other Google services is also a question yet to be answered. Maybe in the future, you can manage your emails, Google Docs, Picasa albums all from the GDrive’s interface. For now, according to Google Operating System Blog,

Google Docs will be the web interface for GDrive, while a Windows/Mac client will integrate the service with the operating system and make it easy to synchronize files.

At this juncture, all we can do is speculate….

For those interested:

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