Google engineers hope to end the arduous process of transferring massive quantities of data - which can literally take weeks to upload via the internet - with something affectionately called "FedExNet" by the scientists who use it, reports Wired News.

Last week, Chris DiBona, the open-source program manager at Google, met with Hubble researchers for what will be the largest data transfer for the project ever: All the astronomical data and images that Earth's favorite space telescope has ever collected - about 120 terabytes.

Once the data transfer is complete, the drives will get sent straight back to Mountain View, where the data will be uploaded to Google's servers for archival purposes. The idea is that if other scientists around the world need access to such a large quantity of data, Google would simply reverse the process.

While the company remains cagey about its future plans, it's conceivable that it may be working on a more science-oriented search engine, along the lines of Google Scholar.