


The simple truth is we don't know what Google might do with our data. However, that doesn't mean the search engine giant will frivolously use your photos and documents for promotional purposes. You own your content, but Google can use it for the purposes listed above. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps)."

The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. 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. In short, what belongs to you stays yours. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. ZDNET: How far do Google Drive's terms go in 'owning' your files? "Some of our Services allow you to submit content. Here are the terms for personal Google account holders. Questions over who owns the files stored on Google's servers have surfaced. You can later search the scanned image for the text from the article. Google describes OCR as technology that "lets you convert images with text into text documents using automated computer algorithms." An example of how this technology can be used is if you scan a newspaper article. Using technology called Optical Character Recognition (OCR), you'll also be able to search text in scanned documents. You'll be able to search by keywords, file type and owner, but that's not all. The main feature that sets Google Drive apart from the rest is deep integration with Google products, like Google+ or Gmail.īecause it's Google, the search function of Google Drive is emphasized. If you're familiar with cloud storage service Dropbox, the user interface is similar. Saving files on Google Drive is a simple as dragging and dropping.
