Gdrive will reproduce Google's soon-to-be-laid cloud service

It is said that Google may restart the previously rumored Gdrive online storage service project. The article also mentioned that GDrive has not been released because Sundar Pichai, now the senior vice president of Google Chrome, considered "files" out of date, but now there is drive.google in Chrome's source code. com domain name. Presumably, Google will make it a core part of Chrome OS as the foundation of Google's cloud services.

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In 2006, Google began testing an online storage service, code-named "Platypus." Platypus, the predecessor of "GDrive," then changed its name at an analyst meeting, suddenly caused widespread speculation on the Internet that Google appeared to be shifting its server to users Individuals on the cloud hard drive. A large number of startups have so far worked on this, but it is assumed that Google will change the size of the project at any time, and the development of this project is free or less funding.Although Google has been Refuses to talk about this project, but the rumor about it has not stopped.

However, it is strange that GDrive has never been released before.

Until early this year, the public learned the story from Steven Levy's new book "In The Plex." In 2008, GDrive was to be released under the leadership of current Google + chief Bradley Horowitz, but Sundar Pichai, now senior vice president of Chrome, convinced Google's senior executives Do not post this item. The reason is that he believes that the concept of "file" is out of date in the cloud-based environment that Google is trying to build. After several debates, Google executives agreed to shelve the GDrive project and the team moved to the Chrome project.

Originally the story is over. But gifted teenager Nick Semenkovich said on Twitter recently that he was reading the Chromium source code and found someone included the drive.google.com domain in the code submitted to the browser, but the link is now Not available yet.

As the research progresses deeper, it is even more incomprehensible that drive.google.com appears only in this one place and is not quoted elsewhere. This either shows that the domain name is no big deal, or that Google is trying hard to keep this secret.

However, the industry believes the former is unlikely because the information in this code shows that drive.google.com has been added to the mandatory transport security protocol HSTS, including Google's key applications such as docs.google.com and spreadsheets.google.com, As well as Android Market and Google Analytics code are in this agreement.

The current information security engineer Chris Evans completed this code. Chrome engineer Adam Langley approved it and said "looks good."

Pisai refused to comment on the news. A Google spokesman said the company's team has been testing new features, but there are no details to disclose.

It looks like something will happen, at least Google uses drive.google.com to do something. Insiders speculate that it could be some sort of new file synchronization service across multiple devices, such as personal PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, Android phones and iOS devices, reminiscent of existing services on the market Dropbox .

Although Google has provided some cloud storage features in Google Docs. But this feature has not been as popular as Dropbox since it was introduced two years ago. Dropbox is worth $ 4 billion and Box.net, another cloud storage service, is worth $ 550 million.

Google devotes a lot of effort in Chrome OS and Chromebook. But so far, the sales situation is not very optimistic. Although the skin handsome think the file is outdated, but one of Google's current focus is the file system. Having this feature as part of the Chrome OS core and associated with the cloud is great for those who want to move from traditional PCs to the cloud. Plus this morning Google announced that Gmail, calendars and documents and other applications can be accessed offline, I believe Google will certainly move.

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