Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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#2Interesting... they are not just going after Dropbox with Google Drive, but also Evernote.
"Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology."
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#3Hello Fax (YC) is a launch partner.
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#4no linux platform "coming soon" - too bad
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#5Can anyone find information on file versioning? How long and how many versioned files are stored?
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#6Seems like inherently, they have always been going after Dropbox, Evernote, whatever. It's the very nature of the overarching idea of Google Docs. Everything is a doc. And all these 'features' are natural parts of the system.
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#7Very aggressive pricing! Dropbox is 4 times more expensive for 100 GB. $5/mo vs $20. Will be interesting to see how Dropbox reacts to that.
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#8In my mind, two factor authentification is a killer feature here. Now if they can also have password-protected link sharing, this will be a much better choice for small businesses or privacy-minded individuals.
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#9Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.
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#10Don't see any formal Linux support, anyone know if they'll open up their API or support with FUSE?