Google View

The web news is alive with the latest leak from Google; the project is being
called GDrive. Reuters reported that a presentation file produced by Google
executives was accidentally posted on the Google website. Probably the most
attractive and eye catching phrase in the presentation was "With infinite
storage, we can house all user files, including e-mails, web history, pictures,
bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform,
etc)." ... Wow.

The trouble is that it wasn't an intended post, and they weren't expecting
the general public to know about it right now. It is just an idea they are banging
around, like many others they have going on every month. Spokesperson Lynn Fox
said: "We deleted the slide notes because they were not intended for publication."
and I believe her, because if you are going to come out and say something like
'we have infinite drive space', then you either mean it, or someone stepped
into the conversation at the most embarrassing part available.

What is going to keep this story buzzing though is; Google is exactly the kind
of company that would not only do a project like GDrive, but make it work as
well.

Google does have a fair share of the market on ideas 'working out'. Take the
Google Book Search
Library Project for example. There have been several articles blogged out there
by angry librarians (and that is not a group you want angry at you), but publishers
like Blackwell and HapperCollins aren't complaining at all. A recent report
said that Blackwell's book title "Metaphysics: An Anthology" has had
over 2500 page views with over 550 "buy this book" click-throughs.
Quick math tells you that's a nice deal. Google has delivered more than six
million page views for HarperCollins in 16 months.

To solve the debate of how to get Google to index your website more completely,
Google came out with SiteMaps,
which not only works for you, but works for them. SiteMaps
is a simple to create XML file that Google uses to index all of the pages
on your website, alleviating most of the controversy of what works and what
doesn't.

On the same note Google Analytics
is back alive. For a while they were not taking on new websites. The idea ran
so fast through the Internet that they couldn't keep up with it (just think
about that for a moment ... Google, who is boasting about being able to store
the worlds information inside infinite sized datadisks, couldn't keep up with
their own idea ... (?)).

Having worked out the bugs for now I noticed that Analytics is once again accepting
new sites. If you own a website and do any Google Ad work, or any keyword work
at all, this is a tool you want working for you.

Another daily use tool for me personally is the Google
Video search, which I use all the time for entertainment and getting information
on various subjects. For example I recently had to write a few articles on RFID,
and wanted to get an overview while I ate my lunch. A quick search on Google
Video brought up several informative lectures and I knew exactly what I needed
to research and what I didn't by the time I finished my burrito and chips.

So what is really next? Sony Ericson and Google are putting Google's Blogger
on a mobile camera phone. That should be great fun, and very popular. Seriously,
I'm getting one of these. The Blogger submission application will be integrated
directly into the phone and tied to the camera as well, allowing you to point,
shoot, blog and view with ease.

"By working with Google, we're able to offer a quick and easy way for
people to blog as they discover how convenient it is as a way to share words
and pictures with friends, family and beyond," said Sony Ericsson's Jan
Wareby.

I'm all over it myself.