Originally posted by: UlricT
New stuff...
# Search for files across all your computers <--Neato!
# Share information with your friends right from the Sidebar <-- useful?
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: UlricT
New stuff...
# Search for files across all your computers <--Neato!
# Share information with your friends right from the Sidebar <-- useful?
Nice. More things for a virus/trojan to exploit. :roll:
Originally posted by: UlricT
Never heard of anything hitting Google desktop yet....
They already have quite a few hooks into the web in ver. 2
Originally posted by: MrChad
I recently uninstalled Google Desktop and I'm trying out Microsoft's Windows Desktop instead. One thing I prefer about Microsoft is that the search results are returned in an Explorer-like window, with normal context menu options that I would expect to be there. Google's web browser result window always bothered me.
"Unless you go to the trouble of configuring Google Desktop carefully, it will cough up your tax returns, medical and financial records, and any other text files you happen to have."
How can this be true? Unless you "configure it carefully"? As far as I know, it doesn't do this AT ALL unless you specifically enable it yourself.Originally posted by: Fish11
Thought this was interesting.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/compu...curity/2006-02-09-google-privacy_x.htm
"Unless you go to the trouble of configuring Google Desktop carefully, it will cough up your tax returns, medical and financial records, and any other text files you happen to have."