RE: Google desktop search and privacy

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Galloway
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:43 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Google desktop search and privacy
> 
> <DGoldstein -at- deustech -dot- com> wrote:
> > * "The way the software tool is designed, a user's queries, 
> but no locally
> > stored information, is distributed via the Internet. But by 
> reading user
> > queries sent to its search service, Google is able to place 
> its AdWords text
> > advertisements next to the search results displayed in a 
> user's browser
> > window."
> 
> If you look at the Desktop Search documentation, it clearly states
> that the only time a user's queries are sent via the Internet (to
> Google) is when a user specifically requests doing both a web search
> and a desktop search on the query. In other words, it's the exact same
> thing as doing a regular Google web search, but the program on your
> machine adds in the desktop search results to the returned, with ads,
> Google web search results. If you want your query to go out via the
> Internet, you have to specifically request that it do so.

Hi Tom,

Thanks for that clarification! Only one show-stopper left now, and maybe
someone can correct me on that one, too.

Dan

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