News Are Desktop Search Programs Ready for Prime Time?

An interesting question, that's posed by PCWorld:

Google wants to help you effectively access the information you store in e-mails, documents, Web pages, contact lists, and entertainment and all the other files stored on your PC, with its new, free Google Desktop Search (GDS) tool. And who better to help you with this task than the most popular search engine on the Internet?

Although Google's GDS tool has useful features, in my test of the beta software, it also appears to be a potential security nightmare. Unfortunately, Google did not respond to my request for comment on these issues.

Desktop search is one of the hottest areas in the search market, as users look for ways to find information on their PCs with the same ease and speed as with Internet search engines like, well, Google. And Google is not the only major name on the Web taking action in this area.

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Searchzilla and Readmond refusing to comment? Why? And it would seem from the article that they've both been beaten to the punch by Copernic.

 

umm.. i guess some people might like this once they get any bugs and whatnot ironed out... to me it looks just as horrid as any "search bar" and i would never allow it on my computer.

 

depending on what you do with your computer and particular security concerns this seems like it could be a helpful tool. But I personally don't need it, and the logs and archives I do keep, I like to keep hidden from prying eyes