SearchEngineWatch: A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search

Danny Sullivan explores some of the privacy issues surrounding Google's launch yesterday of its desktop search tool. While the product provides few new privacy risks - most have been present with other versions of search - it does create a "nice fat target to go for" for snoops looking to dig up dirt on someone else's computer. The application indexes websites viewed and even emails sent all in one big file, ready for copying.