Author: gerold daniels
Date: 06:14:29 10/15/04
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On October 15, 2004 at 08:35:41, William Penn wrote: >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 good morning.i install google tool bar at top and use it.thanks.gerold.
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