System Administrators are already having near stokes in realizing the power of the Google Desktop Search engine. As an example today I received a notice from a company I deal with that they could not update my yearly subscription because my credit card had expired. I went to the site to update my CC info and realized I had forgot my password.
I loaded outlook and went to the categorized area it is normally in and could not find it. Realizing I had the Google Desktop I did a two word search company name and password and Google’s desktop server found my password in a index it had created of a old PST file. Time to find this info 1 second. So I am hoping Google very quickly puts in some password controls that it doesn’t index. [Yahoo]
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Careful though… There is a potential privacy issue, should a guest access your machine. There should be a means to enable / disable the search function via password protect. What if you use a public computer that has this tool?
Reach of the Google Desktop
CLONMEL — The Google Desktop is saving webforms. While that’s helpful when finding blog posts, it’s a little unnerving seeing my credit card saved in cache. And if my Google Desktop is part of a public network, I have a
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Desktop search utilities are the latest buzz, mainly due to Google’s release of Google Desktop Search. I have not tried GDS, but I have used the somewhat expensive X1 and the freebie Copernic Desktop Search. These tools search your local hard driv…