Google Desktop and its controversy
“Version en español”:http://agkamai.com/archives/103/google-desktop-and-its-controversy/2
So the other day reading “mini-d”:http://minid.net i saw that Diego actually “pointed out this software as a spyware piece”:http://www.minid.net/archivos/categorias/anuncios_de_minid/google_desktop.php who opens a port to send personal information directly to Google, oh well, it appears on the “Privacy Policy”:http://www.desktop.google.com/privacypolicy.html that non-personal information is sent to them, and this only includes summary information, how many time it takes to search the information, etc., even, you can enable/disable this option of sending the info, when you’re installing the software or in the preferences. This is practically an indexing server. About resources, i can only see it only takes less than %0.5 of my processor, that means it only makes the dirty job of searching and indexing when your machine it’s idle. Other feature is, that if you’re searching for something in Google, and you have Google Desktop installed on your machine — with the enabled option of course — , it will show you results directly from your machine, of course within the web results.
Other thing i expect from this is the reverse-engineering you know, like every single piece of software, and probably this will reveal the algorithm used by Google to index and then search for specific items — hhhmm Microsoft –, but we don’t know yet if they’re using the same or not, so only the time will tell us what’s going on.
I would really recommend this software if you don’t like the built-in search of Windows, but i will really like to see an integration to the OS, you know like Quicksilver for MacOSX Tiger, that would be great.
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