February 9, 2006

Is Google Desktop 3.0 a privacy disaster? They do seem to be offering some very compelling products but the increasingly evasive privacy policies are not a worthwhile tradeoff.

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1 Onie Feb 10th, 2006, at 00:07:00

As useful as it might be, I’ve been recommending people not use Google desktop.

It can be a resource hog, even in some newer systems. Basically, it’s a second indexing service (Microsoft already has one built into Windows). I’ve seen systems run REALLY slow with it on…turning it off resolves a LOT of problems.

2 Onie Feb 10th, 2006, at 23:27:18

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/0114203&from=rss

Slashdot is now reporting that the EFF is advising users not to use Google Desktop 3.