Google is no charity, sure. But they make it easy for people to develop web apps, prototype and monkey with web content, they allow people to share their work with a simple click, but GOD the URLs are not good enough for some random dude on the Internets, we'd better throw our arms in the air and get all snarky about it.
With this trend of negativity I guess we've found the cure for mortality. It gets REALLY old but somehow never dies.
- Hey there, you should check out this really cool site/post/app/thing!
- That sounds nice, where should I go?
- You go to uh.. googledrive dot com slash host slash zero capital B ehh... forget it.
There is a reason that facebook gave their users vanity URLs, and twitter user URLs are so minimalist, and people pay millions for domain names. A shorter URL is more useful and hence more valuable.
Having the option to point your own domain at the folder would be really nice, actually, and put this on the same tier as Github Pages and S3.
Now you could see a very unreadable url in browser's address bar. If you share the url without shorten it, it's looks ugly.