Google Drive?
Google April 1st, 2007 - By Haochi
I came across this Google Drive Blog when searching for the “launching announcement” of Google Drive “discovered” by Philipp Lenssen.
The blog seems to be fairly new, with the introducing-post posted on “Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 9:23:00 AM“. It says,
We have heard users complain from time to time that we don’t provide enough space for them to store emails, photos, and files. Realizing the growing demand of the Web 2.0 users, over the past year we have been working on a ultimate backup system.
Today, our team pleased to announce the launch of Google Drive beta, an online file backup system from Google that integrated with Google Services like Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, Google Calendars, and many others.
This service will only be available to a limited amount of users during its beta stage. If you are invited, you can find a link called “Drive” in the Gmail Navigation Links.
There you can find detail instruction how to use this new service. If you need help, join us at the Google Drive support forum.
Google Drive is currently available in English only, but we are looking forward to expand this service into more languages.
No luck for me, I don’t have the “Drive” link on my Gmail link bar. Do you have it there?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
No ^^
April 1st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
And you’re on “What we’re reading” part? Wow… ;) Why Zorgloob isn’t?
BTW, the French official Google Blog is about to open its doors! http://googleblogfrance.blogspot.com/
April 1st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
No way, the Google Blog for France is so last year! (I think it is…)
April 1st, 2007 at 1:51 pm
not here :(
April 1st, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Nice fake! ;)
April 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Haochi > last year it was a fake, now it’s real!
PS: You’re so bright you write in name of Mark Ayzenshtat, who seems to be a real Googler =)
PS #2: if the name is Google Drive, will the blog Google Playtpus be deleted? ;)
April 1st, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Heh nice one.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
@Tom
“PS #2: if the name is Google Drive, will the blog Google Playtpus be deleted? ;)”
It was misspelled, so embarrassing! ;) (should be Platypus)
April 1st, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Darn you Haochi, and darn you too Philipp! You guys had me taken in with all that crap about the gdrive. I have to get up pretty early to beat the april fools… Aghhh..
http://ioannusdeverani.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/google-drive-i-think-its-legit/
http://ioannusdeverani.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/google-drive-beta-invites/
April 1st, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Got me until I saw the feedback address. :)
April 1st, 2007 at 8:56 pm
What’s with the feedback link? ?? (confused)
April 1st, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This smells very fake to me. Just because the email address is @google.com doesn’t mean it’s real. However about ten minutes ago I sent an email to that address, and it has not bounced yet. We’ll see if it does later on. In the meantime, I have a hard time believing that Google would make any official announcements on April Fools Day. They are notorious for publishing many jokes, and it would seem that they view this day as an official joke day. I seriously doubt they would conduct legitimate business on their joke day. Of course, I’ve been wrong before. ;)
April 1st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Nice one Haochi!
But i just check the image URL, it is:
http://googlified.com/files/google-drive-links.gif
So,:-)