Google ups its Docs storage space

THE GOOGLE EMPIRE, upon which the sun never sets, is giving the users of its Documents software a huge 1GB of storage space to play with.

Yep, finally, what you can snap up in a cheap thumb drive for a few Euros will be given out by one of the biggest web outfits for free. Perhaps more useful is the fact that you can now upload files which are up to 250MB in size.

Writing in its blog, Google points out that it spells the end of the days when kids could claim that they left their homework at home or the dog ate their thumb drive. Now homework can be stored in the cloud and it will always be available.

"This feature can also help you work with teams to organize and collaborate on information online. For example, an architect can share large schematic files with her construction firm, while a PTA member can share large graphic files for posters with other members. You can even add these files to the same shared project folder your team has already been using to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets," the blog enthuses.

However, what will Google's rivals have to match this generous offer? Well, we got a press release from the Vole, which appears to be clearing its throat and pointing out that people get 25GB to play with on its cloud based system Skydrive.

On that level, Microsoft's Skydrive appears to be a much better product, so why isn't it getting any attention at all?

The short answer is that Google's cloud offerings are pretty good and what they lack in webspace they gain on functionality. Still, 1GB versus 25GB is seems rather chintzy on Google's part to us. µ