Introducing Google Drive. Yes, yes it is true!

Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President, Products (Chrome and Applications)

Today, we introduce Google Drive - a single space for storing your files and working with them. It allows you to work on documents simultaneously with other users - for example, prepare a joint project with a colleague, plan any events or keep records of expenses with partners. With the help of this service you can upload to the cloud and have constant access to any files, including videos, photos, PDF, text documents and many others - a total of 30 types.


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Google Drive will allow you to:

• Create files and collaborate on them. Now Google Docs has become part of Google Drive. Together with other users, you can edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets in real time. In addition, you can now leave comments and respond to them in files of any type (PDF, images, video, etc.). If other users comment on a shared document, you will receive a notification about it.
• Protect your files and provide access to them from anywhere, including from a mobile device. All the necessary files of any format will always be at your fingertips - at home, in the office or on vacation, no matter what device you work from. Google Drive can be installed on a computer (PC and Mac), and for Android mobile devices you can download the Google Drive application. We are also working on an app for iOS devices. Visually impaired and blind users can work with Google Drive with the help of a special program that converts text to speech, or a screen reader.
• Easily find the files you need . You can search by keywords and filter results by file type, owner, and other criteria. Using optical character recognition technology, Google Drive even “reads” text in scanned documents. For example, if you have downloaded an old newspaper clipping, you can search by the words of the text of the article itself. In addition, we have integrated image recognition technology into Google Drive. It works like this: if you “drag” photos into it from your trip to St. Petersburg, then when you enter a search query [St. Petersburg] they appear in the results.

With Google Drive, you can store up to 5 GB of data for free and download files up to 10 GB. This is enough to store and download “heavy” photos from your trips, scanned letters or documents and presentations necessary for work, and HD video. You even have room for writing a whole novel :) If this volume is not enough for you, it can be expanded to 25 GB with a monthly payment of $ 2.49, up to 100 GB for $ 4.99 per month, and even up to 1 TB for $ 49.99 per month. If you decide to use paid features, your Gmail inbox size will be increased to 25 GB.






We’ve created Google Drive to make it even easier to work with Google products and services. Already today you can post photos uploaded to Google Drive on Google+, and very soon you can attach files to messages in Gmail. Google Drive is an open platform. Thanks to our collaboration with third-party developers, you can send faxes , edit videos or create site layouts . You can download these applications in the Chrome app store — their list is constantly growing.


You can start using Google Drive today - just follow the link drive.google.com/start . Follow the news - in the future we will introduce many new features!