The 900-pound gorilla in the search space is apparently developing a service that will allow users to store every scrap of data from their computers' hard drives on Google's servers.

This information was contained in the speaker's notes section of a PowerPoint presentation posted on Google's Web site by the company after its Analysts Presentation Day event last Thursday.

But Google removed the presentation shortly after it was posted and later replaced it with an edited version in PDF format. The speaker's notes had been deleted from the PDF.

Too late, Google.

Some quick-on-the-keyboard people, including Greg Linden, author of the Geeking with Greg blog, had already read the unedited version and released tidbits of information about Google's newest plans on their blogs.

The announcement sparked many questions about trust and privacy, as well as how Google would manage to turn a profit from offering storage to the masses.

The speaker's notes briefly mentioned three services that will play a crucial role in Google's "Store 100%" plan: "GDS," "Lighthouse" and "Gdrive."

GDS is apparently Google's Desktop Search and, in this context, most likely refers to "Search Across Computers," the just launched component of the service that enables users to temporarily store copies of their hard drives on Google's servers and then search for information across all the computers they have access to.

For example, someone could use their desktop machine to search for a document created on their laptop.


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