Re: Google desktop search and privacy

[Tom Galloway <tyg -at- panix -dot- com>]

<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.

tyg


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