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The Wall Street Journal is out with a story today shedding a little more light on Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) online storage plans. The WSJ article claims hat the search giant is planning on launching an online storage service in the next few month to enable users to store documents, pictures, and music on Google’s servers. Google already provides some level of storage via its image hosting service, Picasa, and Google Docs, Google’s online stab at competing with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office Suite.
The rumored Gdrive is one step closer to reality. This will probably be a two-tiered service with a free version and a premium version for which users will have to pony up some money. Don’t look for this to provide short-term meaningful revenues for search behemoth. Something more important, though, is happening.
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