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 public credit card. GeekNews groks this too.

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.

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Image of Google Enterprise Search Appliance from BBC.
Anick Jesdanun -- "Google's new search tool poses security risks"
Geek News -- "If you use a public PC keep your eyes open for the Google Desktop Icon"
BBC -- "Google rolls out corporate search"
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