Author: William Penn
Date: 05:35:41 10/15/04
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On October 14, 2004 at 22:19:59, William Penn wrote: >On October 14, 2004 at 19:44:55, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On October 14, 2004 at 18:00:15, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>http://desktop.google.com/ >>> >>>(windows only) >> >> >>is it useful ? > >I've installed it too, and we'll know soon... :) >WP >(probably yes) So far, so good. It is constantly (after about a minute's delay, to determine that I'm inactive) indexing my emails (including the text therein!), files on my computer (including the text inside .txt and other text files!), and internet pages visited. I don't chat, or it would be indexing that also. It puts an icon in systray to make it easy to bring up the search page, then it's exactly like searching at google.com for anything - except it searches my local computer instead. It's definitely useful if there's something you're having a hard time finding on your computer. If you're like me, and even though my memory is fairly good, there's so much data on my computer that only searches stand a chance to find it all. It just requires you to remember or guess the best keyword(s) to locate it. Sometimes it takes a few tries to come up with the proper keyword(s), but it works, in general. My only question at this point regards security and privacy. It wants to access the internet whenever it puts something new into the cache on my local computer, and I don't understand why that should be necessary!? So I've blocked its internet access with my firewall (ZoneAlarm), and so far it seems to be continuing to do its indexing/cacheing chores like usual. I'm certainly not an expert in this area, but am cautious about allowing anything on my computer to access the internet. Only my browser, email and ftp clients, and antivirus software get the green lights. Even my firewall must ask for permission! So the Google Desktop ain't gonna get that kind of blanket permission from me (probably). I'm finding a fair amount of anti-google sentiment. A lot of people don't trust google. WP
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