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Google Offers Cheap Online File Storage With A Catch

By: Andy Beal
2007-08-10

If youre a power user of Googles Gmail or Picasa Web Albums, Google wants to help you with your storage limit woes.

If youre a power user of Googles Gmail or Picasa Web Albums, Google wants to help you with your storage limit woes. As of today, you can buy extra online storage that can be used across email, images and soon, docs and spreadsheets.

Heres what you can get:

6 GB ($20.00 per year)

25 GB ($75.00 per year)

100 GB ($250.00 per year)

250 GB ($500.00 per year)

So, whats this catch I speak of? Well, you can only use the extra storage for content normally associated with Gmail and Picasa. While you could email yourself video and PowerPoint files, the service doesnt give you direct access. This is a pain for most of us, but a smart move by Google. They want you to use their services more often, so it makes sense to limit the storage to Google supported files.

What do you think? Is Google being short-sighted by not allowing you to use the online storage anyway you want? I for one would sign up for at least 25GB, if it worked in a similar way to Omnidrive or Mozy.

UPDATE: Microsoft has upgraded their online file storage product. Windows Live Skydrive works more closely to the way I think Googles storage should work. Its free, but limited to just 500MB of storage.

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About the Author:
Andy Beal is an internet marketing consultant and considered one of the world's most respected and interactive search engine marketing experts. Andy has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies such as Motorola, CitiFinancial, Lowes, Alaska Air, DeWALT, NBC and Experian.

You can read his internet marketing blog at Marketing Pilgrim and reach him at andy.beal@gmail.com.

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