On Apr 4, 2007, at 5:58 AM, ak43949 wrote: Some of the features of the utility include: Quick Search Box; search your Gmail Web history; searching of many file types; familiar results Smart indexing; Google integration; file versioning; and more.
I'll add a couple tidbits that I made sure were included to make it more usable by government users, and that are different in the Mac version (compared to the Windows version):
(a) We did not include the "search across computers" feature that got Google Desktop for Windows in hot water at some agencies. No user content or index data is ever uploaded to Google, period. If you turn on "usage statistics", that includes crash traces (it is a beta), but even if Google Desktop crashes, those traces do not include file names or contents, IP addresses, or any other user-identifiable information. It does help us locate and fix bugs, but we made sure to sanitize the data thoroughly before we send it to our crash report server.
(b) If you protect your home directory with FileVault, we put the index for files in that directory inside the FileVault volume. This ensures that index and cached revision information is protected just as strongly as the files being indexed. I took particular care in our internal design and security reviews to ensure that we do not leak potentially confidential information outside of the FileVault volume, so that data at rest is protected even if an adversary has physical access to the machine and/or drive.
Amanda Walker Mac Client Applications Team Google
(note: please don't contact me directly with support requests; I'll try to answer questions that show up on fed-talk, but I'm not participating here in an official capacity)
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