Google Drive profile

Paid storage and business subscriptions support the product.

Alphabet Inc.: USD 402.84 billion revenue in the year ended 2025-12-31. Net income: USD 132.17 billion. Group/company figures.

32.81% net margin for the year ended 2025-12-31: reported net income divided by revenue.

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), 2026-10-16 snapshot: USD 340.59 per share. Market capitalisation: USD 4.17T.

Paid storage, Workspace subscriptions and AI assistance monetise an expanding body of stored work.

• LP

  Larry Page

  A Google co-founder. Super-voting Class B shares give him voting influence that differs from ordinary economic ownership.

  Voting power

  27.4%

  Disclosure as of

  6 April 2026

  Total voting power, not total economic ownership.

  Sources (1)

  • Alphabet Inc. — proxy ownership tablePrimary regulatory filing · accessed 18 October 2026
• SB

  Sergey Brin

  A Google co-founder with super-voting Class B shares. Voting power is not the same percentage as total economic equity.

  Voting power

  25.3%

  Disclosure as of

  6 April 2026

  Total voting power, not total economic ownership.

  Sources (1)

  • Alphabet Inc. — proxy ownership tablePrimary regulatory filing · accessed 18 October 2026
• B

  BlackRock

  An investment-management group reporting voting or investment authority over shares held through managed portfolios. The position is not all the manager’s own economic wealth.

  Share-class percentage — Class A

  6.1%

  Voting power

  2.5%

  Disclosure as of

  6 April 2026

  6.1% is Class A only, not all economic equity. The proxy cites an older 2024 filing.

  Sources (1)

  • Alphabet Inc. — proxy ownership tablePrimary regulatory filing · accessed 18 October 2026

Gemini in Drive supports file search, summaries and questions about accessible material. Eligible plans determine the available capabilities.

Google develops Drive and Gemini within its consumer and Workspace products.

Files, sharing permissions and connected AI features define the workspace’s data boundary; account type determines additional organisational controls.

File permissions and organisational administrators control access to work material.

Audit shared links and folders, and check the AI settings and terms for the account type you use.

15/25 points

Storage and collaboration depend on who can access the file. A restricted folder and a public link create different audiences.

15/25 points

Files, sharing permissions and connected AI features define the workspace’s data boundary; account type determines additional organisational controls.

15/25 points

Gemini summaries shorten discovery. The source document and its revision history preserve the detail behind the summary.

20/25 points

Audit shared links and folders, and check the AI settings and terms for the account type you use.

Higher-scoring options for a comparable use:

• Dropbox — 75/100 versus 65/100

  Comparable use case: file storage and sharing

  File storage and sharing: 75/100 compared with 65/100. Storage becomes harder to replace when it also helps you find the work.

  Sources (3)

  • Dropbox — Trust evidencePublic primary documentation · accessed 18 October 2026
  • Dropbox — official product pagePrimary product · accessed 18 October 2026
  • Dropbox: Cloud File Storage — Apple App StorePrimary store metadata · accessed 18 October 2026

• iCloud — 75/100 versus 65/100

  Comparable use case: file storage and sharing

  File storage and sharing: 75/100 compared with 65/100. Automatic syncing is reassuring precisely because it becomes easy to forget.

  Sources (3)

  • iCloud — Trust evidencePublic primary documentation · accessed 18 October 2026
  • iCloud — Trust evidencePublic primary documentation · accessed 18 October 2026
  • iCloud — official product pagePrimary product · accessed 18 October 2026

Finding a file or completing shared work rewards keeping information together.

Comments, sharing requests and suggested files bring work back into attention.

Gemini can summarise files and find material using ordinary language rather than exact filenames.

Shared folders and collaboration make storage choice a team convention.

Existing links, permissions and document histories make migration a substantial coordination task.