Google desktop search is finally being scrutinized.

The Google desktop search is finally getting a closer look from people in the media. People are starting to ask the question, is this a little too good. The idea of your computer having a photographic memory sounds nice on it's face, but people are beginning to see there are some shortcomings to that. The idea that no e-mail will ever be truly deleted, that bank transactions with information will show up on historical cached pages. These are the kinds things that could be very bad.

I'm now curious of what the adoption rate for Google Desktop has been. Clearly Google needs to refine the desktop search to do some things and not others. I think they say that you can turn off certain features, but will the average user actually do that? Are there legal ramifications for Google if personal information slips or is retrieved by someone other than the owner of that material?

In my humble opinion, I think Google should come out with a lite version that doesn't scour everything by default. Maybe there should be a web version that only handles web history or an email version and so on. The way it is now is becoming more intrusive than most people probably wanted it to be.

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