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Google wants to store it all

15 March 2006

GOOGLE wants you to hand over all your digital data. At least, that is the gist of notes from a corporate presentation inadvertently leaked onto the search engine’s website last week.

The notes, which have since been removed, reveal that the search engine has plans for an “infinite” storage system to hold all its users’ files, emails and photos. These could then be accessed via any web-enabled computer.

“If you have the ability to access your files remotely, you can work on them from anywhere,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of search industry website Searchenginewatch.com. However, the US government’s recent efforts to get its hands on Google’s…

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