For those who don't know, Google Desktop Its an awesome programme that I've been using for about a month now, I was wondering how many other people use it? The idea behind it is brilliant, and it definitely beats the Microsoft search If you don't use it, you should. It's like 100x better than normal MS document searching Basically, do you use it, and what do you think of it? There;s a poll running on this thread, ro there should be
its like having Google technology at your desktop. It's the BEST search software!! sometimes i wonder how did they do it. i mean it can search a file including any text or words within that file.
Ya, now Google can mine data from your desktop as well, you should read the terms of service for Google Desktop, it is rather interesting what they are allowed to collect.
Well, advanced is disabled, I can't see much else that they mine from my pc? An application number? peh. I've disabled advanced features, so it doesn't matter ooh actually, looking at it, they use my docs to create better search results, I wonder if they mine anything about your activity, and it'd be hard to hurt you with it, info like that isn't usable in court, i don't think
I used it but hmm... the file size did sweal and later on I think it also caused my computer to crash so I never used it afterwards.
I use it. I like it. Though it does make me nervous knowing they know what I know... and by allowing them such access, my foil hat proves nearly useless against them.
Same reason I stopped using it. It even turned out that they were keeping some indexed stuff of your PC on their servers with one of the options.
I know this Google desktop service soon it was launched but didn't use it because I never compromise with my privacy.
google desktop lets you see all of your hotmail emails etc. so basically if you dont want someone who uses your computer (like a wife for example) to see your email topics then don't use it. It's scary actually, so I dont use it.