Google Drive
Google's cloud service and office suite
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing.
Google Drive incorporates the Google Docs suite, a collaborative office suite of productivity applications that offers:
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Google Docs , a word processor;
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Google Drive - Sheets , a spreadsheet application;
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Google Slides , a presentation program;
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Google Drive - Drawings , a graphics application;
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Google Drive - Forms , a form designer.
Google Drive gives you access to your work from anywhere, across your Mac, PC, mobile devices and on the web. Simply download Drive on your Mac or PC to sync files from your computer to the cloud. Update a file on one device and changes are automatically saved to Drive and your other device, so you have the most up-to-date version of your files wherever you need them.
Bring your work to life :
Share files or whole folders with individuals, your entire team or even customers and partners. In the Docs, Sheets and Slides editors multiple people can work on the same document at the same time
Buy what you need & grow flexibly :
Start with up to 15 GB of included storage for each of your users. Need more? For as little as $4/month for 20GB, administrators can centrally purchase and manage up to 16TB (Yes, that’s 16,000 GB!) of additional storage for each user.
Google Drive incorporates the Google Docs suite, a collaborative office suite of productivity applications that offers:
-
Google Docs , a word processor;-
Google Drive - Sheets , a spreadsheet application;-
Google Slides , a presentation program;-
Google Drive - Drawings , a graphics application;-
Google Drive - Forms , a form designer. Google Drive gives you access to your work from anywhere, across your Mac, PC, mobile devices and on the web. Simply download Drive on your Mac or PC to sync files from your computer to the cloud. Update a file on one device and changes are automatically saved to Drive and your other device, so you have the most up-to-date version of your files wherever you need them.
Bring your work to life :
Share files or whole folders with individuals, your entire team or even customers and partners. In the Docs, Sheets and Slides editors multiple people can work on the same document at the same time
Buy what you need & grow flexibly :
Start with up to 15 GB of included storage for each of your users. Need more? For as little as $4/month for 20GB, administrators can centrally purchase and manage up to 16TB (Yes, that’s 16,000 GB!) of additional storage for each user.
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Categories
Backup & Sync • Office & Productivity • File Sharing • Remote Work & Education • File ManagementPlatform details
Mac: Through the app Google Backup and Sync
Windows: Through the app Google Backup and Sync
Tags
- online-harddrive
- Document Collaboration
- office-suite
- cloud-storage
- collaborative-writing
- Online Backup
- real-time-collaboration
- file-backup
This is what Google terms says for Google drive for users with Google personal account.
"When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. "
omg....that's super scary...thank u
Reply written over 6 years ago
To be fair, Google literally has to ask for these rights to be able to provide their services.
"use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works" > Store your files on their servers and make copies of them on various servers.
"communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content" > make a file or multiple files public if you share files with others or actually make them available to the public.
If they do not ask for these permissions in the first place you would have to accept custom terms for every single file you upload or share.
Reply written almost 3 years ago
Yeah, i suppose all companies that host files like this (in the US at least) have this or at least should have it to comply with laws?
Reply written 27 days ago
Google has a back door for NSA, this is prooved by Snowden leaks
The folder location of the local folder is C:\Users\MyUser\Google Drive
and cannot be changed to another drive or partition in the Settings of Google Drive Version 1.2.3123.0250.
So, if you make a Drive-Image-Backup with Macrium Reflect of C:\ all personal Data are included and you cannot separate it from the system data.
In difference to DropBox you cannot change the language in the Google-Drive-App to make an english screenshot for AlternativeTo.net.
I'm having trouble trying to figure out if i should save stuff to my Gdrive or my verizon cloud.
A couple things I've noticed, (bare with me here i'm not really good with comp stuff)
verizon cloud on my PC won't allow me to play,watch or open files. It does allow me to on my android phone though.
Gdrive also did not allow me to open a MS Office document that i really needed at the moment. That's when i gave up on it. I do, however, enjoy the fact that i can access it easier through my PC Chrome/Google web browser. (more convenient)
Basically my question is: Which one is better? (pros and cons)
Thanks
~~JJ
i keep documents here, you can make them, share and this really makes life easier.