Google Inc. may own all your online search queries today but it appears the company has larger ambitions to own your hard drive as well.

A Google-based online hard drive is expected to be launched this year, the first steps towards making the desktop computer obsolete and further advancing the battle for online supremacy against software maker Microsoft Corp.

Google’s answer for online file storage — tentatively dubbed the “Web Drive” or “GDrive” — roughly would allow users to create a local backup of all their documents to be accessed anywhere there is an Internet connection.

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