Edit this postGoogle Docs is a free e-document storage service for users where Google team has increased the free size from 7.5 GB to 10 GB and one can enhance this to 20 GB by paying a nominal fee of $5 per annum. The announcement by Google team on enhanced free storage is as following:
Today, we're happy to announce that we're increasing everyone's free storage in Gmail from 7.5 GB to 10 GB (and counting) to celebrate today's launch of Google Drive. The increase will take effect over the next 24 hours. We hope you all enjoy the little bump!Watch the video on Google Docs now as it has Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. They also have image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [grand canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up Google Docs Competitor
It is a threat to dropbox service.
Disadvantages Google Docs
The biggest disadvantage of Google Docs is that the content in Google Docs becomes property of Google.
India has its share of e-storage service which comes from the stable of ICICIdirect and has its name as E-Locker which was earlier E-safe in India.
