I finally got around to installing and testing Google Desktop, and what can I say but WOW.
It’s very easy and straight-forward to install. It starts indexing files, emails and web history in the pc idle time and enables you to search through them all in lightning speed.
You can even let it index your chat sessions for future searches.
It’s amazing.
I’m already using it for all my searches through my emails and files. It’s so fast and effective, it beats any of the built-in search functionalities.
It’s Google doing it’s wonders on your desktop.
Another big thank you to the guys at Google for the great software they’re making for us.
Are you not concerned about privacy, and what Google will be doing with the info its accumulating?
Well I’ve disabled the option of sending information back to Google for amelioration purposes. So that’s one thing gone.
And I tested the tool after disabling the internet connection, so no way for them to send anything.
Anyway during my offline test, it worked fine, so it’s not really connecting to Google when I search. All it does is search the index it created on my pc.
There also are no AdSense ads, meaning that it’s not reading my files and sending their contents to their servers to try and match ads with them.
So, from what I’ve seen up to now, I don’t see any evident threat.
fair dos 😉