RE: Google desktop search and privacy

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

I misunderstood the NYT article to say that local Google desktop searches
send queries to the Internet. *Obviously*, any user-initiated Web search
sends a query to the Internet! But as Tom Galloway pointed out on TECHWR-L a
few hours ago, local Google desktop searches *don't* send a query to the
Internet unless you specifically request it.

My only objection, then, is the automatic update feature.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada 
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:37 PM
> To: Goldstein, Dan; TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Google desktop search and privacy
> 
> You said that the first time. When you enter any search term in any
> search web, aren't you sending your query, without locally stored
> information, via the Internet? 
> 
> When you press the send button, aren't you doing so with your
> permission?
> 
> --- "Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> > 1. The application transmits information via the Internet about
> > local actions.
> > 2. The application is remotely updated via the Internet without
> > user permission.
> > 

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