Google Drive, April Fool?

The rumor of an online storage service Google Drive, GDrive also called, resurfaced. There is now talk of early April, with up to 5GB of free storage.

GDrive is the appeared in 2006, rumors of a Google online storage short year after year. Perhaps because this service is highly anticipated and we do not see too what keeps Google. The rumor resurfaced in February 2012 with the publication of an article in the Wall Street Journal . It is now up to the GigaOM blog dedicated to revive the rumor mill by advancing a release date for the first week of April. It thus becomes clear. That is if exist GDrive.

Google Gmail Drive Drive

For six years, Google has never said he would create such a service. Nor that it would be called GDrive, Google Drive or even Drive. In fact, this rumor was born in 2006 at a time when there was no talk of cloud , in favor of a free software called Gmail Drive , which enables the use gigabytes of Gmail space to store files from the File Explorer for Windows. Since then, the search giant has launched Google Docs, then renamed Google Docs. And in 2010, it authorized the storage of any kind of files in the gigabyte of space allocated for free on Google Docs.

Google Drive: 1 to 5 GB of free storage

This gigabyte of data would be available space for a future Google Drive, according to GigaOM, that is if the service is one day. The additional space would be paying ... as being on Google Docs. Talkandroid.com speaks to him, an output mid-April with 2 GB of free storage. The site even shows screenshots of the new service stating "it would be possible to go up to 5GB of free storage by referring other users" .

Google Drive, already has-been ?

Google Drive but there still an interest before the onslaught of online storage sites? Yes, because it would be linked to other Google services with APIs for developers integrate applications on GDrive in computers, tablets and smartphones . The side of competition, the market is already very busy: DropBox, box.net, box.com, Skydrive ... Free with capacities ranging up to 50GB for ADrive! If the existence of Google Drive is still uncertain, there is no doubt that Google would succeed to his place should he decide to run it.