Google Drive’s rebrand to Google One includes offers for hotels found in Search
Deals on hotels found in Google Search are spotlighted in the Benefits section of the new Google One app, with plans to add more promotions from Google properties.
Topic: Cloud storage
Google images can now be saved on desktop & accessed via a mobile device
After launching the image-saving feature on mobile last November, Google now lets logged-in users save images on desktop.
Google Takes On iTunes, Amazon With New Music Store
To virtually no one’s surprise, Google today announced the launch of a digital music store that integrates with its existing cloud-based music storage locker. And that locker service is officially out of beta with today’s announcement. The Google Music Store exists in the Android Market alongside app, book and movie stores. It’s available in the […]
Google Readies Cloud Music Without Record Company Blessing
It was almost exactly a year ago that Google briefly demo’d a cloud-based music service for Android that also allowed users to stream their iTunes libraries to Android handsets (see video below). That service was supposed to launch before holiday 2010. However there have been numerous stories chronicling setbacks in Google’s efforts to launch its […]
Amazon Preempts Google Music With Cloud Player Streaming For Android
It would appear that Amazon is becoming Google’s best frenemy. The company launched its well designed Android app store last week and yesterday surprised a lot of people by introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. No, it apparently doesn’t work on Apple devices. Beating Google Music to market it offers music storage and streaming […]
Google Docs Adds Files Storage, AKA GDrive
The Google Docs blog announced a new feature that allows you to upload files and share those files with friends, co-workers and colleagues. Google is limiting the file upload to 250 MB per file, with a maximum total of 1 GB of free storage. Of course, you can always buy more storage at any time, […]
GDrive: It’s Alive! — Or So It Appears
There’s new buzz and speculation about the status of Google’s unconfirmed online file storage service, informally dubbed “GDrive.” Garrett Rogers points to a CNET interview with Gmail Product Manager Todd Jackson, who’s quoted saying: “We know people’s file sizes are getting bigger. They want to share their files, keep them in the cloud, and not […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Online Storage Coming Within Months? Real Google Platypus Screen Shot
Google Plans Service to Store Users’ Data from the Wall Street Journal reports Google may be offering an online storage service within a few months. We have heard rumors of such offerings in the past, going under code names such as “Platypus,” GDrive, Google Drive and Google “My Stuff.” Are these renewed rumors legit, or […]
The Google Drive Domains Find New Home: GDrive Coming Soon?
Gary Price reports that Google has recently moved MyGoogleDrive.com and MyGoogleStorage.com from third party domain name servers to Google domain name servers. Is this a sign that the GDrive (Google Drive) is coming soon? Back in September, we reported that GoogleDrive.com was moved to Google’s name servers and anticipated that the GDrive was coming soon, […]
Gmail To Increase Email Capacity With New Counter Algorithm
The Gmail Blog announced that in an effort to continue to gradually increase the storage space for their Gmail users, they have updated their counter algorithm. The new formula will speed up the rate at which they increase the capacity for email storage in Gmail. Googlified documents how this new algorithm will impact your storage […]
Google Adds Security & Space To Corporate Gmail Users
Google boosts corporate e-mail service from the AP reports that Google is adding security and more email storage space to Gmail for their corporate users. Google purchased Postini, a software security for electronic communications company, back in July. They will be utilizing the Postini technology to add security software to Gmail and their other online […]
More Proof Of The Existence Of Google’s GDrive
Tony Ruscoe discovered more signs that the GDrive, a long-rumored storage service from Google, actually exists. After Tony tried messing around with some URL parameters, he stumbled upon a screen that looked like this: Image from Google Blogoscoped
Searcharazzi: So Over Google Storage Increase
alt=”Searcharazzi – A Column From Search Engine Land” align=”left” hspace=”5″ vspace=”3″ width=”100″ height=”100″> If there was a silver lining to the rainy morning it was that little note above Searcharazzi’s Gmail inbox, stating “You are almost out of space for your Gmail account. You can view our tips on reducing your email storage or purchase […]
Google Selling Extra Storage For Gmail, Picasa & More; Microsoft Launches Own SkyDrive Solution
The Google Blog announced they are allowing users to pay for additional storage for Gmail and Picasa. Currently Google gives you 1GB of free space for Picasa and 2.8GB of free space for Gmail. You can now buy additional space, and Google hopes to expand this service to their other services, such as Google Docs […]
Yahoo Expands Unlimited Email Offer Globally
Today, Yahoo has begun rolling out unlimited email capacity worldwide. On March 28th, we reported they were offering unlimited email storage in the US. Now this is going worldwide. Not everyone will have unlimited capacity today but over the next coming months, they will, a Yahoo spokesperson told me.
Yahoo Mail To Offer Free Unlimited Email Storage
Yahoo announced that they will be offering “unlimited email storage starting in May 2007” to everyone. The announcement also gives a wonderful historical roundup of Yahoo Mail’s almost 10 year history.
Google To Help Space Telescope Science Institute Complete Largest Data Transfer
Google’s Next-Gen of Sneakernet from Wired reports that Google is going to help the Space Telescope Science Institute transfer 120 terabytes of data, which is reportedly the largest data transfer to-date. They coined the transfer of huge amounts of data “FedExNet.” This effort is to be lead by Chris DiBona of Google, and his process […]