Google Desktop Search

Google Has Quietly Developed Google Desktop Search.

Originally Published: October 19, 2004

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Google Desktop Search: Security threat?

"Google Desktop Search might just be too good. Using the new software, I was able to bypass user names and passwords that secure Web-based e-mail programs and view personal messages sent and received on public PCs.

Using Google's new software on a shared computer at the Google booth at the Digital Life trade show floor I was able to easily search for, find, and read private Yahoo e-mail sent on the computer by previous users earlier in the day."

Google search tool could be used to spy

"If it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged. That could mean revealed passwords, conversations with doctors, or viewed Web pages detailing online purchases."

Google Desktop Search doesn't threaten security

"Privacy hysterics bring old whine in new bottles to the Internet party. The desktop search beta from this Web search leader doesn't do anything you can't do already."

Find it fast: six apps that search your hard drive

"But not all of these desktop search engines are alike. We looked at six [...] Read our reviews for help in choosing the hard drive detective to dig out your data."

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