Evil Desktop Search

Read an Article on the google desktop search (they're setting it up for Linux) and I thought I'd comment on the evilness of it ,which no one else is doing.

The Desktop search is a search bar located on your desk top. What does it mean ? It means when you do a search they can identify YOU PERSONALLY because it makes you fill out all these forms and such. Now every time you do a search it's recorded and locked to you , instead of just being a random search in the vast mix of random searches. Now when you visit google or some google owned site (Didi I mention Google just bought doubleclick.com , the largest internet advertiser about and they're on almost every single web page everywhere ? ) you get ads targted specifically to you.

And they track this information for years. So if you use the search to go to every site , and they certainly encourage that , doing everything they can to discourage , even hide, the address bar, then they know every site you've visited for years.

Annoying when used simply for advertising purposes.

Bad , if you get accused of any crime at all , since if they keep records, the FBI can supena them. Having a nasty divorce with your wife ? She's accusing you of all sorts of wild things ? They can get a court order to pull those records. Are you of arabic decent ? some random cop in the US says Hmmm... He's probably a muslim , lets see what he's been looking at on the internet ...

I have a friend , well an aquantence...when I mention this he says "thats what you get for surfing kiddy porn sites". I also have a brother who went through a really nasty divorce. We're talking bad, the wife just invents things off the top of her head , pretended to be deaf in court (she's not) , the whole nine yards. If google had been doing this kind of thing at the time of the divorce , you can bet she'd have had someone go through the records to look for anything incriminating.

I grant you google just wants to make a profit, they're not interested in creating a totalitarian state. But in the persuit of the all mighty buck , they are running us all down that road.