Privacy, a new search engine concern.

With all the rush to adding desktop search to search engine's web based search, there has been concern about privacy. If you're looking to stay up on this topic, might I humbly suggest checking out my privacy news blog. I've taken a special interest in the whole topic of privacy with the desktop search push which will only get more crowded with the addition of Microsoft's offering by year's end.

Privacy has been getting a lot of press lately with the problems with ID theft. People are more aware than ever that the things they considered private are getting harder to keep that way. This new desktop search idea is going to be a privacy problem unless individuals take personal responsibility for the own private lives. None of these big companies are going to do it for you.

Did you realize that the new Google desktop search can retrieve e-mails from an index on your computer even after they've been deleted? Did you know that you can take the index off a PC and transfer it to portable mass storage and drop it onto another PC and there all the information will be? These are aspects of desktop search to be concerned about and I'm not sure anyone has really thought it through before rushing to market.

I think Google makes some good products, but they, Microsoft and others going into this market need to make sure people have security & choices if it's going to work. For now, I won't install Google Desktop search for some of the reasons I've stated.

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