Google Drive officially launched. Offering 5 GB free storage

          After long years of rumor Google Drive has been officially launched yesterday. Google entered the cloud business with an offer of 5GB free storage. The search engine giant with their latest addition in their products list is taking a direct rivalry with Microsft's Skydrive, Dropbox, Box & many other known names in this business.

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          As Google introduced it world : Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond.



          People like me who uses various cloud hosting services may have noticed that as soon as the rumor of Google Drive started taking a full throttle all the other cloud services started sending mails about their new features or just a reminder mail ( though you use it everyday :-/ ). And moreover Microsoft's Skydrive just went for a complete revamp. So this is a clear indication that companies are now in a direct battle to earn the title of "Best Cloud Hosting". Microsoft has gone a step forward by comparing it's service with some major players of this cloud hosting market. Thay have published a comparison table in their website as follows

Skydrive vs Google Drive vs Apple Icloud vs Dropbox. Click to enlarge

          This comparison table is made by Microsoft and you can clearly see that this table is partially promoting Microsoft's Skydrive. We don't want to go in any argument rather we focus in discussing Google Drive. The service is by Google so you don;t ever need to worry about losing your files or any downtime. And as the day passes Google will be adding more new features & apps for Google Drive. Google Drive is integrated with Google Docs, means users can collaborate with each other & it has a commenting system on your works.
          Everything is good till we saw a specific term of Google Drive. And this part is the most wierd part we experienced. As Google says,
Your Content in our Services: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This licence continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing that you have added to Google Maps).
This means the moment your file gets uploaded to Google Drive you are agreeing to give rights to Google to edit the file. And your file will be available in the Google Drive search file function (there may be an option to make files Private). While the other cloud hosting services keeps the right if the file to you Google takes it from you. We do oppose it a bit. But in another statement Google says that the right of my file will stay with me :-?. Well, we have applied for a Google Drive and will sure update what's inside. To now more stay connected with us & subscribe to our free email alerts.