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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/15 ... p_privacy/

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Friday 15th October 2004 22:47 GMT

"Google's Desktop represents a privacy disaster just waiting to happen, a rival has warned. David Burns, Copernic CEO, says users should know that the giant ad broker intends to mix public and private queries in the future, leveraging its key moneyspinning product: contextual advertising."

"Google Desktop Search allows users to opt out of sending the company back detailed usage data, but it isn't possible to firewall it completely. Much more ominously, reckons Burns, Google's product manager Marissa Mayer said she expected the private queries to generate more hits for google.com. Most people, she believed, would choose to combine personal and web searches resulting in more revenue for Google's ad business.

"As a result, we will serve more Web results pages and more ads, and those ads have more chances of getting clicked on. So there will be incremental Web search revenue from this product," she told the Washington Post."
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I'm taking this news with a grain of salt but if google is keeping track of offline useage to line their pockets they can KMA!

Thank god I don't install shit like this.

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