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Google has the market for offering online storage space. Their new service, called Google Drive, will be in competition with cloud storage services like Dropbox, Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. The search will offer 5GB (gigabytes) of storage for free for those to keep their photos, documents and other files online. Keeping things in the cloud users can access their files from any computer anywhere in the world, as as it has Internet access. At the top end, Google will 16TB (terabytes) of space – at a price of $799.99 a month. Sixteen terabytes is to store 16,000 movies. For most people, the free 5GB option will be than enough space.

Google senior vice-president of apps Sundar Pichai said the of Drive was an important step for the company. He wrote on a blog post: “Drive is a place where you can create, share, and keep all of your stuff.…You can take all your , regardless of which you're on, and make it seamlessly available to you.” Some industry believe Google’s entry into the cloud storage market could it up. Richard Edwards, an at the research firm Ovum, said Google’s move could stir Facebook into action. “Facebook doesn't have a cloud service but this may it into an acquisition,” he said. He added: “If Facebook was to buy Dropbox, that would be a -changer.”