Comments on: Google Desktop http://www.digitalhobbit.com/archives/2004/10/14/google-desktop/ Thoughts from the hobbit hole Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:34:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: DigitalHobbit http://www.digitalhobbit.com/archives/2004/10/14/google-desktop/#comment-25 DigitalHobbit Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:25:03 +0000 http://www.digitalhobbit.com/blog/archives/2004/10/14/google-desktop/#comment-25 Glad to see you're reading my blog. :) If I understand it correctly, Google Desktop is purely client-based, i.e. all the indexing and searching happens on the desktop and no data is actually sent back to Google. This is very different from Blinkx, which has to send the actual contents of the email or local document back to the Blinkx server in order to retrieve related contents from the web. So Google Desktop maybe isn't quite as cool as Blinkx, as it only deals with local content, but therefore probably a lot more trustworthy... ;) Glad to see you’re reading my blog. :)

If I understand it correctly, Google Desktop is purely client-based, i.e. all the indexing and searching happens on the desktop and no data is actually sent back to Google. This is very different from Blinkx, which has to send the actual contents of the email or local document back to the Blinkx server in order to retrieve related contents from the web. So Google
Desktop maybe isn’t quite as cool as Blinkx, as it only deals with local content, but therefore probably a lot more trustworthy… ;)

]]> By: Chad R. West http://www.digitalhobbit.com/archives/2004/10/14/google-desktop/#comment-24 Chad R. West Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:30:32 +0000 http://www.digitalhobbit.com/blog/archives/2004/10/14/google-desktop/#comment-24 Hmm, very interesting. I'm wondering if this was in development before Autonomy spoke with them about Blinx. I still find these applications a bit suspicious, indexing my email?? I don't want them poking around my email, I know they aren't silly enough to send the information to their datacenters, but you never know... Hmm, very interesting. I’m wondering if this was in development before Autonomy spoke with them about Blinx. I still find these applications a bit suspicious, indexing my email?? I don’t want them poking around my email, I know they aren’t silly enough to send the information to their datacenters, but you never know…

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