A complaint about Google Desktop.

This article by Scot Peterson at eWeek talks about how Google Desktop could be a problem in the personal lives of people. Not so much for what it indexes, but that is part of it, but that it starts to take over the computer and slows everything down. From the article:

After the initial indexing, which takes several hours, the application will continue to index all new files that contain information that could be searched. It's supposed to do that while the machine is idle, but in my experience, the overhead created by Google Search turned my daily work into a daily grind. Once a killer app, search is about to become a time killer, crossing the line from helpful utility to intrusive application tied into everything.

Do you remember how well computers ran before virus scans and firewalls? They were quick and you had less problems. I know we must have these programs now, but if people were good it wouldn't be needed, like a lot of other wasted motion in life.

That's the problem with desktop search and I don't think that this will become a pervasive computer accessory once people hear a few horror stories. It's funny how tech people that invent stuff like this have no moral compass. It's as if they say because we can do it we should. There are a whole host of technology that comes under this banner of wreckless development. It's as if we don't think about the consequences to our society before we build tools that could cause problems. Where is the ethics, the morality of the technology industry? Shouldn't someone, a CEO perhaps ask if this is something a company should even get into regardless of the economic effect? I'm all for companies making money, that's fine, but your moral convictions should enter in the discussion instead of being left at church on sunday morning.

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