Google Desktop Seach

Rick Stirling

Anyone tried it yet?

http://desktop.google.com/

Basically it indexes your PC, and your email. Then you can find anything with the google interface.

frosty

Thanks Rick I will grab it in the morning for my workstation.

And yes I agree with Ror, the avatar is very nice!

TechSmith

That is one utility that is waiting for a backdoor trojan to happen. Once one is written for it your machine will be wide open and easily searched. Sorry about the gloom and doom I guess I've been doing support too long and getting tooo jaded.

KDR_11k

That thing by itself is spyware, it reports stuff to its master.

SjetvsKerrigan

Google only needs to collect a little more information before it declares us all obsolete and replaces us with perl scripts.

frosty

Sheez Techsmith I don't want a trojan in my backdoor, I may hold off on this until my Boss dl it and then installs it on all our workstations.

jzero

Let's all hope Google holds to its foundation principle of "Don't be evil!"

/jzero

Faucet

I don't think I'd have much use for this. I also am a bit creeped out by it. I'm a fan of Google, but I'm also admittedly paranoid about what I have running on my computer. This is just a little too much info being collected by a program that's "FREE!"

Anyway, it's very rare that I lose anything on my computer. I have a pretty good organizational system that I stick to. I also don't use Outlook or AIM and very rarely save documents in Microsoft Office formats unless I'm sending them to someone. (I use OpenOffice.org)