WTF Google? Drive Term Of Service Are Insane

Today I wrote a post earlier today were I whined about Dropbox plans pricing and how I hope they improve with the new competition from Microsoft & Google.

But I guess I will have to scratch Google out as reading the term of service makes my skin crawl. Here are exerps from Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Drive term of service.

DROPBOX

"By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, "your stuff"). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below."

SKYDRIVE

"Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service."

GOOGLE DRIVE

"When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

Seriously Dropbox You Need Better Plans

Hi Dropbox,

      I like many love your service and have been really useful for the last couple of years. But like many I have always have a an issue with your lackluster plans. $100 for a mere 50GB or $200 for a 100GB is not enough. 

But what serious alternative we had? Box? SuharSync? I don't know abiut other but Box is to limited unless you pony for extras and SugarSync is not for me I don't know how is today but back in 2009 it failed me.

So for the last 3 years I had stick with Dropbox always watching my usage and deleting files not to reach my 100Gb limit.

But 2012 is a revelation year with iCoud, SkyDrive & Google Drive entering the market Dropbox you need to rethink your strategy. I will be testing SkyDrive & Google Drive soon and if they live up to the hype I maybe getting my self a better deal.

$60 for a 100GB on Google Drive and $50 for a 100gb with SkyDrive are pretty competitive prices. I know you got a great service and still are the market leader but the reality is that as of today there are stronger competitors with better prices and strong services. 

I hope you see the new reallity and make some adjustment before becoming the RIM & Nokia of the cloud sync.

Google Glass Project: Argumented Reality Glasses Inbound [video]

Google is working on Augmented Reality glasses and let me tell you this things if work like on the video will be amazing. Its like Apple's Siri but constantly attach to your eyes. I really hope Apple is working on something similar so both go head to head and the technology explode. Take a look at the video is pretty nice.

Go.co/projectglass

Were Does Google's $38 Billions Came From? Who spend the most? [infographic]

Google had almost $38 billions in revenue last year. But do you know how much came from advertising? And do you know who were the largest spenders (top customers)?

Well Advertising still Google's cash cow with 96% of all revenues. Lowe's & The Home Depot were the two largest spenders. 

And the top keywords appears to sill be dominated by insurance with "self employed health insurance" commanding almost $44 a click.

Take a look at the whole infographic put together by WordStream to see were Google's revanue came from.

WordStream.com

What Can Happen In 60 Seconds? 925 iPhone 4S Sold, 1400 Redbox Rentals & More [infographics]

Do you know all the stuff that can happen in just 60 seconds? Apple sold 924 iPhone 4S on launch weekend, 1400 movies are rented at Redbox, Google make another $75,000, 1.8 TB of data are created, 720 new computer are sold and more. Take a look at the infographic below its pretty cool.

Infographic by- GO-Gulf.com Web Design Company