Online Storage from Google?

Here is another Google news that it “absent-mindedly” let slip out! It is going to simply mirror your desktop and provide free online storage!

Google is preparing to offer online storage to web users, creating a mirror image of data stored on consumer hard drives, according to company documents that were mistakenly released on the web. The existence of the previously rumoured GDrive online storage service surfaced after a blogger discovered apparent notes in a slide presentation by Google executives published on Google’s site after its analysts presentation day last Thursday.

“With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc),” the notes in the original Google presentation state. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt in his presentation made a cryptic comment that one goal of Google was to “store 100%” of consumer information.

Copies of the notes were captured by a handful of bloggers and shared around the web. The company subsequently took down its original PowerPoint slide presentation and replaced it with a 94-page Adobe Acrobat file, devoid of the speaker notes. When asked to confirm plans for a GDrive, a Google spokeswoman declined to comment on any specific service but confirmed that presentation containing the notes had been mistakenly released on the web. “We deleted the slide notes because they were not intended for publication,” Google spokeswoman Lynn Fox said.