Google Online Apps

Leaked Documents Reveal Google Online-Application Strategy

The search engine wants you to write and store documents online for a simple reason: more room for advertisements.

Google recently acquired Upstartle, which has developed a Web-based word processor called Writely. Instead of running the software and storing the documents on the local PC, a Web-based word processor operates inside a web browser and the documents are stored on a remote server. Expanding its vast array of Linux servers, Google would use an on-line storage facility "Gdrive" to store everybody's documents.