Seriously, how is this trolling?

To the poster that had questions about privacy.  You are 100% spot on, I would be afraid of it because Google is notorious for getting personal infos in order to make a buck.

This has been around, they just use the 4gigs or so of Gmail. Anyhow, this is stupid, it would have the slowest possible transfer speed of any mass storage device. It will be neat to transfer huge files between computers which aren't networked though. Or a quick backup for music and pcitures while reformat then deleted the stuff.

Google is all about privacy invasion.

Has anyone heard of Google analytics software here.

Its a FREE tool that tracks your website traffic and gives you metrics that you would have to pay 1000s of dollars from another company. The problem is that it gives google your website tracking stats too... I know lots of major site that use it.

Combine that with the fact that google owns doubleclick, the largest ad server on the market.

Now we get a dangerous combination of Google knowing the amount of traffic your site does as well as knowing the advertising rates that you request using the ad server.

Sooner or later they will come in and say to sites "our data shows that you only get this much data, so we will not pay the rates you ask".

I see this as the music file sharers dream.

It seems thoeretically possible to share music without using any of your own bandwidth.

I can't imagine they haven't thought of this themselves though.

There is no way I would put any bittorrents etc... on this puppy.  You could be caught quicker than I can post this response.  Unless of course you have an ip address that is untrackable to you.

heck no.

Not touching this.

I think i'll pass.

I may use it for some backups (as I already use gmail), but not for private information.

This technology has been around for a while and hasn't caught on yet. I don't think it will ever catch on either. I'm a bit baffled at how someone really sees this as a good idea. All I hear are hopes that Google won't misuse their power over this information. We all know using this service is just setting yourself up for failure, or even prison depending on what you're storing on there.