It's been a month or so since Google's Desktop Search Application was released. My initial reaction when the software was launched was nervousness. We live in a time of daily security breaches and while I trust Google for the most part I am reluctant to install software that indexes too much as far as I'm concerned. Google's application indexes data files, including word processing files, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail messages, cached Web pages and chat sessions. What if it searches your cache and finds bank summaries or personal messages? What if it's a shared machine and it accidentally shows you someone else's personal information? I understand that Google found a capability that was missing in Microsoft's OS and decided to fix it, and for that I applaud their efforts. Unfortunately at this time I'm not willing to take the security risks of installing their application.
If Google can work on this application and fix some of the security breaches I would be happy to install this application. Does it really need to index a computers cache, I personally don't think so. I think this feature should be removed, and the same holds true for searching other machine user accounts.
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