CodeStore.net comments on "Google Deskbar"

Reply from Atlanta web design

Atlanta web design — Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:12:00 +0100

What os work with this

Reply from sms fotokontakte

sms fotokontakte — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:01:00 +0100

Does anyone know a solution for the mac desktop?

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:32:00 +0100

I'll cop to a certain amount of alarmist over reaction... but couple my mild warriness with stories of horror from folks who try using Ad-sense... Google is an evil empire. :-P

In all seriouseness... the only thing they get from tracking your search behavior is a profile of what on the www interests you. The only thing this is good for is marketing or targetting ads, and reporting your aboorent behavior to the federal government so that when they start cracking down on elicite hobbys, they know where to start. ! ;-)

Reply from veer

veer — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:59:00 +0100

cool. i like this thingy. created two new options for notes.net

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ND6 Forum

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thanks jake.

Reply from Henk

Henk — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:06:00 +0100

I don't understand.

There's a cookie and an ip address associated with your search behaviour. Google can use this information in various ways, most likely to improve your search experience. But the data is not in any way connected to you as a person, so what are you afraid of exactly?

Reply from mt69clp

mt69clp — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:05:00 +0100

I never thought much about it...Now I am really afraid of Google. The problem is that everybody who has the power to build a good search engine has very much knowledge in his hands. That can be used for all kind of things, the good and the evil (in real life Darth Vader would win I think)

Reply from Airplay

Airplay — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:42:00 +0100

For the "spy-ware" claims, check out {Link} , scary stuff...

I actually stopped using google for more than 6 months. Now I'm "slipping" every now and then, but the feeling is not good.

Reply from Jake

Jake — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:56:00 +0100

Jerry. Google spyware? Can't see it myself. Can you imagine the uproar and the damage to their image if this came out!? Assuming all transmissions between deskbar and Googles Ministry of Information pass through port 80 it would be easy to track and some nerd somewhere would have found it by now.

There's an option to not allow the "labs" to see what you're searching for and I chose it.

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:29:00 +0100

Ever since I heard Google was tracking how many searches users perform in a day, secretly (unless you do a LOT of searches, then apparently you get to see the number on the Google page) I might add, I've been extremely suspect of any software add-ins they offer.

The tool bar for IE, for example, takes up something on the order of 8 MB of memory. What huh? 8 MB? I shudder to think what something added to the desktop might do... probably indexing your hard drive with their proprietary search algorithms....

Reply from Manning Clark

Manning Clark — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:33:00 +0100

Tweak UI for Windows XP has a search prefixes option that allows quick and customizable searches from the address area. You could type "g codestore" to search Google for this site. You have to be in IE to use it, but it doesn't clutter up other areas.

Reply from Jake

Jake — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:09:00 +0100

Yes.

Reply from tange

tange — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:02:00 +0100

Is the poppy representing remberence day?