Share your desktop search with other PCs? Not me!

[dazzlindonna]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...TERNATIONAL&TE

Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days.

That compromise, sought as part of a free software upgrade to be released Thursday, might be more difficult to swallow now that the Bush administration is demanding to know what kind of information people have been trying to find through Google's search engine.

[gabs]

30 days..

I don't really know what to say about that..

[randfish]

That doesn't seem like a reasonable request. The problem that Google has with this type of service and their overall marketing is that the same people who are Google's evangelists and love them the most are also huge privacy supporters. Google is being unwise asking them to choose between their love of a public company and their love of a guaranteed freedom. I don't think they'll be on the winning end of this one in the long term.