Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google, released on April 24, 2012,which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. Files shared publicly on Google Drive can be searched with web search engines. As of October 2014, Google Drive had 240 million monthly active users.
from wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Drive

A file hosted on Google Drive and that is a normal document of type none has a shared link that looks like this if you want to share it :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID/edit?usp=sharing

When you access this link, it will show the file and or its contetn if its a zip up in the browser .
However there is a easy method to download these files directly:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID

All you have to do is to fuill in the FILE_ID of the original URL and place it in the modified URL. at the right place.

Why i did write this, well i schared documents with some people and they were unable to download simple zip files.
So im now writing this to help them. Some simply don; t get the arrows and points you need to click on to downlad a viewable file form google drive. Its not that easy if you have no time or don`t know how to do it.

regards bluedxca93